CVE-2020-36846

CVE-2020-36846 maps to IO::Compress::Brotli using an embedded Brotli library vulnerable to a buffer overflow (CVE-2020-8927). Affected: IO::Compress::Brotli versions < 0.007 bundled with Brotli

Integer overflow in the bundled Brotli C library

A buffer overflow exists in the Brotli library versions prior to 1.0.8 where an attacker controlling the input length of a "one-shot" decompression request to a script can trigger a crash, which happens when copying over chunks of data larger than 2 GiB. If one cannot update the C library, its...