An integer overflow leading to a heap-buffer overflow was found in OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.1. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application compiled with OpenEXR.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - OpenEXR: Heap-buffer-overflow in Imf_2_5::copyIntoFrameBuffer (CVE-2021-23169)

  - An integer overflow leading to a heap-buffer overflow was found in the DwaCompressor of OpenEXR in     versions before 3.0.1. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application compiled with OpenEXR.
    (CVE-2021-23215)

  - An integer overflow leading to a heap-buffer overflow was found in the DwaCompressor of OpenEXR in     versions before 3.0.1. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application compiled with OpenEXR. This     is a different flaw from CVE-2021-23215. (CVE-2021-26260)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - OpenEXR: Heap-buffer-overflow in Imf_2_5::copyIntoFrameBuffer (CVE-2021-23169)

  - A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Academy Software Foundation OpenEXR 2.3.0 in     chunkOffsetReconstruction in ImfMultiPartInputFile.cpp that can cause a denial of service via a crafted     EXR file. (CVE-2020-16587)

  - A head-based buffer overflow exists in Academy Software Foundation OpenEXR 2.3.0 in writeTileData in     ImfTiledOutputFile.cpp that can cause a denial of service via a crafted EXR file. (CVE-2020-16589)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
202484	RHEL 7 : openexr (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
202483	RHEL 8 : openexr (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196105	RHEL 6 : openexr (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

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CVE-2021-26945

medium

Tenable Plugins

high

high

critical