high7.5
CVE-2021-20298
A flaw was found in OpenEXR's B44Compressor.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Openexr | Openexr | through 2.5.7 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 10.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html