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much, much, more. in the past few years, lzo has gained traction in file systems as well. lzo can be used in the linux kernel within btrfs, squashfs, jffs , and ubifs. a recent variant of the algorithm, lz , is used for compression in zfs for solaris, illumos, and freebsd. lzo is even enabled in kernels
is easy to read online, the linux kernel implementation found here . in all variants of lz[o ], the vulnerability occurs when processing a literal run. this is a chunk of compressed data that isn't compressed at all. literals are uncompressed bytes that the user decided, for whatever reason, should not...
http://blog.securitymouse.com/2014/06/raising-lazarus-20-year-old-bug-that.html