Buffer Overflow Affecting google/brotli package, versions [,1.0.8)
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- published30 May 2025
- disclosed15 Sept 2020
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 15 Sep 2020
CVE-2020-8927 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade google/brotli to version 1.0.8 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. An attacker could control 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.