CVE-2021-20300

Summary

CVECVE-2021-20300
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-03-04 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-12-13 02:22:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Openexr Openexr All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
25562 - oss-fuzz - OSS-Fuzz: Fuzzing the planet - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3236-1] openexr security update MLIST lists.debian.org
1939153 – (CVE-2021-20300) CVE-2021-20300 OpenEXR: Integer-overflow in Imf_2_5::hufUncompress MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
prevent overflow in hufUncompress if nBits is large by peterhillman · Pull Request #836 · AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178742 Debian Security Update for openexr (DLA 2732-1)
  • 179546 Debian Security Update for openexr (CVE-2021-20300)
  • 181315 Debian Security Update for openexr (DLA 3236-1)
  • 750987 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for openexr (SUSE-SU-2021:2793-1)
  • 751018 OpenSUSE Security Update for openexr (openSUSE-SU-2021:2793-1)
  • 751042 OpenSUSE Security Update for openexr (openSUSE-SU-2021:1198-1)
  • 751072 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for openexr (SUSE-SU-2021:2913-1)
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