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CVE-2020-29367 (GCVE-0-2020-29367)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-27 19:07 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:48
VLAI
Summary
blosc2.c in Blosc C-Blosc2 through 2.0.0.beta.5 has a heap-based buffer overflow when there is a lack of space to write compressed data.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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