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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-20300

A flaw was found in OpenEXR's hufUncompress functionality in OpenEXR/IlmImf/ImfHuf.cpp. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted file tha...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

A flaw was found in OpenEXR's hufUncompress functionality in OpenEXR/IlmImf/ImfHuf.cpp. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted file that is processed by OpenEXR, to trigger an integer overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 openexr

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.5.4-1"}]}]

Debian:13 openexr

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.5.4-1"}]}]

Debian:14 openexr

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.5.4-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org