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.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3