cve-2021-20298
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-23 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:37
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a OpenEXR Version: Fixed in OpenEXR 3.0.0-beta
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