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.

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=1939160

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=27409

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3