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CVE-2021-20298

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.

Published

2022-08-23T16:15:09.020

Last Modified

2024-11-21T05:46:18.500

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.5 (HIGH)

Weaknesses

Type: Secondary
CWE-400
Type: Primary
CWE-787

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	openexr	openexr	≤ 2.5.7	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	10.0	Yes

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97 Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843 Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97 Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843 Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)