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CVE-2020-36134: 
Linux Gentoo vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

AOM (Alliance for Open Media) v2.0.1 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation vulnerability in the component aomdsp/x86/obmcsad_avx2.c. The vulnerability was identified and assigned CVE-2020-36134, with the record being created on January 4, 2021 (CVE MITRE).

Technical details

The vulnerability is specifically located in the aomdsp/x86/obmcsad_avx2.c component of the AOM codebase. The issue was introduced in version 2.1.0-rc1 and subsequently fixed in the same version through a patch (Debian Security).

Impact

The vulnerability results in a segmentation violation which could potentially lead to a denial of service condition in affected systems running AOM v2.0.1 (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in subsequent releases of AOM. Users are advised to upgrade to version 3.2.0 or later to mitigate this vulnerability. For Gentoo users specifically, the recommendation is to upgrade to media-libs/libaom-3.2.0 or later versions (Gentoo Security).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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