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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-20298: OpenEXR security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 24, 2021
Added
Sep 24, 2021
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-openexr-libs
Title
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