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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-29367

blosc2.c in Blosc C-Blosc2 through 2.0.0.beta.5 has a heap-based buffer overflow when there is a lack of space to write compressed data.

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CVE-2020-29367
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31 Oct 2026, 12:36 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-29367

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Nov 2020, 20:15 UTC

blosc2.c in Blosc C-Blosc2 through 2.0.0.beta.5 has a heap-based buffer overflow when there is a lack of space to write compressed data.

osv:CVE-2020-29367
Complete source record
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