CVE-2021-3478

medium

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

Published: 2021-03-31

Updated: 2022-12-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium