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Raising Lazarus – The 20 Year Old Bug that Went to Mars

Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) algorithm has been written in 1994 and is extremely efficient compression algorithm. LZO outperforms zlib and bzip by four or five times their decompression speed. The algorithm has made its way into projects we use on a daily basis, such as OpenVPN, MPlayer2, Libav, FFmpeg, the Linux kernel, Juniper Junos, and much, much, more. Even LZ4 has the same exact bug, but changed very slightly.”]

Source: http://blog.securitymouse.com/2014/06/raising-lazarus-20-year-old-bug-that.html

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