CVE-2020-8927: Buffer Overflow

September 15, 2020 (updated December 2, 2020)

A buffer overflow exists in the Brotli library 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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8927

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