{"id":63955,"date":"2025-05-30T05:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T02:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2020-36846-brotli-embedded-library-buffer-overflow-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T05:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T02:01:56","slug":"cve-2020-36846-brotli-embedded-library-buffer-overflow-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2020-36846-brotli-embedded-library-buffer-overflow-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2020-36846 &#8211; Brotli Embedded Library Buffer Overflow Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2020-36846<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> May 30, 2025, 1:15 a.m. | 42\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>A buffer overflow, as described in CVE-2020-8927, exists in the embedded Brotli library.\u00a0 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 &#8220;one-shot&#8221; 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\u00a0or later. If one cannot update, we recommend to use the &#8220;streaming&#8221; API as opposed to the &#8220;one-shot&#8221; API, and impose chunk size limits.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 0.0 | NA<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2020-36846 Published : May 30, 2025, 1:15 a.m. | 42\u00a0minutes ago Description : A buffer overflow, as described in CVE-2020-8927, exists in the embedded Brotli library.\u00a0 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}