Denial of Service Vulnerability in libjxl v0.5.0 via Malicious GIF File Encoding

CVE-2021-36691 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

libjxl v0.5.0 is affected by a Assertion failed issue in lib/jxl/image.cc jxl::PlaneBase::PlaneBase(). When encoding a malicous GIF file using cjxl, an attacker can trigger a denial of service.

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