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.

• CWE-400
• CWE-787

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20298Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25913Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939156Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85fd638ae0d5fa132434f4cbf32590261c1dba97Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/843Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory

Published

Aug 23, 2022

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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