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CVE-2021-20298

Published: Aug 23, 2022

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	OpenEXR	affected `Fixed in OpenEXR 3.0.0-beta`

Weaknesses (CWE)

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

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