By Darren Pauli, 27 Jun 2014

 

A 20 year old bug has been discovered in an algorithm so pervasive it's used in the Mars Curiosity rover, cars, aircraft, Android phones and a string of popular open source wares.

The bug can be found in the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) data compression algorithm created by Markus Oberhumer, who on Wednesday posted a new version 2.07 of the code and revealed the bug.

 The LZO algorithm was created in 1994 and has since appeared in countless systems including OpenVPN, FFmpeg and the Linux kernel.

 

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