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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-36332

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:45 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-36332

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 May 2021, 17:15 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2020-36332
Complete source record
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