CVE-2020-36332 Denial of service in libwebp

What is CVE-2020-36332?

CVE-2020-36332 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 21 May 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in libwebp in versions before 1.0.1. When reading a file libwebp allocates an excessive amount of memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the service availability.

Weakness: CWE-400, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-36332?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Webmproject Libwebp.

How do I fix CVE-2020-36332?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2020-36332 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-36332 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36332, GHSA-fx92-p77r-3r2c, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-36332.