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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] libxc: add LZ4 decompression support



On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 21:55 +0200, Yann Collet wrote:
> Consequently, a compressed-block of size 0 is not supposed to exist
> (break format).

Unfortunately an attacker is free to break the format. The question is
what will the decoder do when faced with such invalid inputs?

It seems like such concerns were not considered at all during
implementation? (which is fair enough, since the data stream is
implicitly trusted in the original target use case)

Ian.



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