RHEL 7 : OpenEXR (RHSA-2020:4039)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141030

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenEXR.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4039 advisory.

OpenEXR is a high dynamic-range (HDR) image file format developed by Industrial Light & Magic for use in computer imaging applications. This package contains libraries and sample applications for handling the format.

Security Fix(es):

* OpenEXR: out-of-bounds read during Huffman uncompression (CVE-2020-11761)

* OpenEXR: std::vector out-of-bounds read and write in ImfTileOffsets.cpp (CVE-2020-11763)

* OpenEXR: out-of-bounds write in copyIntoFrameBuffer function in ImfMisc.cpp (CVE-2020-11764)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL OpenEXR package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4039.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9dac4880

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd3afe18

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4039

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828990

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828995

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1829002

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141030

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4039.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2020

Updated: 6/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11764

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openexr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openexr-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openexr-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11761, CVE-2020-11763, CVE-2020-11764

CWE: 125, 787

RHSA: 2020:4039