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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-7723 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:37:23.785Z

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-20298

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-08-23T16:15:09.020

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:46:18.500

Link: CVE-2021-20298

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2021-02-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-20298 - Bugzilla

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