CVE-2021-20298
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-20298
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-20298.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-20298
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2022-08-23T16:15:09.020Z
- Modified
- 2026-05-14T12:03:08.352971019Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- Database specific
{ "unresolved_ranges": [ { "source": "CPE_FIELD", "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "extracted_events": [ { "last_affected": "10.0" } ] } ] }- References
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843
Affected packages
Git
github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affected
- Database specific
{ "source": "CPE_FIELD", "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:openexr:openexr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "2.5.7" } ] }