The lz4 packages provide support for LZ4, a very fast, lossless compression algorithm that provides compression speeds of 400 MB/s per core and scales with multicore CPUs. It also features an extremely fast decoder that reaches speeds of multiple GB/s per core and typically reaches RAM speed limits on multicore systems. For more details about the security issue, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.