Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 31, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024

CVE-2021-3478

Description

There's a flaw in OpenEXR's scanline input file functionality in versions before 3.0.0-beta. An attacker able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could consume excessive system memory. The greatest impact of this flaw is to system availability.

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Affected products

Openexr/Openexrllm-fuzzy2 versions
<3.0.0-beta+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <3.0.0-beta
- (no CPE)range: OpenEXR 3.0.0-beta

Patches

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References

security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-27mitrevendor-advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00001.htmlmitremailing-list
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.htmlmitremailing-list
bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detailmitre
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitre

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