Buffer overflow in Arm Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression Encoder

CVE-2021-43086

ARM astcenc 3.2.0 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. When the compression function of the astc-encoder project with -cl option was used, a stack-buffer-overflow occurred in function encode_ise() in function compress_symbolic_block_for_partition_2planes() in "/Source/astcenc_compress_symbolic.cpp".

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (68.4th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 68.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2021-43086: held from 0.012 to 0.012.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-43086?
CVE-2021-43086 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Arm Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression Encoder, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-02-28.
How severe is CVE-2021-43086?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.