Rust advisories / lz4-compress
UnmaintainedRUSTSEC-2017-0007 · lz4-compress
RUSTSEC-2017-0007: lz4-compress is unmaintained
Short answerNot a bug report: lz4-compress is no longer maintained, so future security issues will not be fixed. The advisory points to lz4-compress as the replacement.
| Crate | lz4-compress |
|---|---|
| Type | Unmaintained |
| Affected versions | Every version. |
| Fixed in | not applicable (the crate is unmaintained) |
| Severity | not scored |
| Published | 2017-04-17 |
| Last changed | 2020-10-02 |
| Also known as | none |
What to do
- Move to lz4-compress.
- If you cannot move yet, acknowledge it in your audit config so CI stays green while you plan: add
"RUSTSEC-2017-0007"toignorein.cargo/audit.tomlordeny.toml, with a comment saying why. - Find who pulls it in:
cargo tree -i lz4-compress.
Details from the advisory
According to the developers this crate is no longer maintained.
The suggested alternative is lz4-compression, a maintained fork of lz4-compress.
See also lz-fear which is compatible with the reference LZ4 implementation in C, but not with lz4-compress.
References
- Package: crates.io/crates/lz4-compress
- Advisory: rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2017-0007.html
- Report: gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/tfs/issues/89
From the RustSec Advisory Database (CC0-1.0) via the OSV export, downloaded Oct 24, 2026. Severity score computed from the published CVSS vector.
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