CVE-2021-3479

Description

There's a flaw in OpenEXR's Scanline API functionality in versions before 3.0.0-beta. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could trigger excessive consumption of memory, resulting in an impact 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=1939149

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25370

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3