CVE-2021-20298

 

Published at: - 23-08-2022 06:15

Last modified: - 26-08-2022 06:02

Total changes: - 2

Description

A flaw was found in OpenEXR's B44Compressor. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR, to exhaust all memory accessible to the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

 

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Reference

• https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298
• https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843

 

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