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DEBIAN-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 mem...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 openexr

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.5.4-1"}]}]

Debian:13 openexr

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.5.4-1"}]}]

Debian:14 openexr

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.5.4-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org