CVE Vulnerability

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.

7.5 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97 Patch 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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298 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
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:openexr:openexr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2022-08-23 04:15

Updated : 2022-12-13 02:24

NVD link : CVE-2021-20298

Mitre link : CVE-2021-20298

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-787