CVE-2021-20296

Description

A flaw was found in OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.0-beta. A crafted input file supplied by an attacker, that is processed by the Dwa decompression functionality of OpenEXR's IlmImf library, could cause a NULL pointer dereference. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-27

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00001.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939141

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=24854

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3