CVE-2020-36846 (GCVE-0-2020-36846)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-30 00:50
Modified
2025-05-30 22:01
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1395 - Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component
Summary
A buffer overflow, as described in CVE-2020-8927, exists in the embedded Brotli library.  Versions of IO::Compress::Brotli prior to 0.007 included a version of the brotli library prior to version 1.0.8, where an attacker controlling the input length of a "one-shot" decompression request to a script can trigger a crash, which happens when copying over chunks of data larger than 2 GiB. It is recommended to update your IO::Compress::Brotli module to 0.007 or later. If one cannot update, we recommend to use the "streaming" API as opposed to the "one-shot" API, and impose chunk size limits.
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TIMLEGGE IO::Compress::Brotli Version: 0   < 0.007
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