CVE-2021-20298

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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.

7.5 /10

CVSS v3 : 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://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
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:openexr:openexr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
History

13 Dec 2022, 02:24

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html - (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
First Time Debian
Debian debian Linux

12 Dec 2022, 02:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html -

26 Aug 2022, 16:02

Type Values Removed Values Added
References (MISC) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156 - (MISC) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156 - Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843 - (MISC) https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843 - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298 - (MISC) https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298 - Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913 - (MISC) https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913 - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97 - (MISC) https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97 - Patch, Third Party Advisory
CWE CWE-787
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown 		v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5
First Time Openexr
Openexr openexr
CPE cpe:2.3:a:openexr:openexr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

23 Aug 2022, 17:04

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE
Information

Published : 2022-08-23 16:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 14:35

NVD link : CVE-2021-20298

Mitre link : CVE-2021-20298

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-20298

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Products Affected

openexr

  • openexr

debian

  • debian_linux
CWE
CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption