Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 23, 2022· Updated Aug 3, 2024
CVE-2021-20298
CVE-2021-20298
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.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
6- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.htmlmitremailing-list
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298mitre
- bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detailmitre
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitre
- github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97mitre
- github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843mitre
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