CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-20298
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400, CWE-787
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.
Affected configurations
• openexr openexr (<= 2.5.7)
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory