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20-Year Old Vulnerability in LZO Compression Algorithm Went to Planet Mars

A 20 year old critical subtle integer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO), an extremely efficient data compression algorithm that focuses on decompression speed, which is almost five times faster than zlib and bzip compression algorithms.

Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) was developed in 1994 by Markus Oberhumer and currently it is one of the most popular and widespread compression algorithm used in the Linux kernel, some Samsung Android mobile devices, other embedded devices and several open-source libraries including OpenVPN, MPlayer2, Libav, FFmpeg......

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LZO FLAW WENT TO PLANET MARS
Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) algorithm is also used in some car and aircraft systems, as well as NASA's Rover, Curiosity, which is right now on planet Mars and has completed its first year this week.......

Terve tekst lingil:
http://thehackernews.com/2014/06/20-years-old-vulnerability-in-lzo.html