CVE-2021-20298
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 23, 2022
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 17, 2020
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
OpenEXRn/a |
|
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298
- [debian-lts-announce] 20221211 [SECURITY] [DLA 3236-1] openexr security updatemailing-list
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