CVE-2021-3478

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3478
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-31 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-12-13 01:57:00 UTC
DescriptionThere'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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Openexr Openexr All All All All
Application Openexr Openexr All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
OpenEXR: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202107-27) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3236-1] openexr security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2701-1] openexr security update MLIST lists.debian.org
27409 - oss-fuzz - OSS-Fuzz: Fuzzing the planet - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org
1939160 – (CVE-2021-3478) CVE-2021-3478 OpenEXR: Out-of-memory in ScanLineInputFile MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178693 Debian Security Update for openexr (DLA 2701-1)
  • 179860 Debian Security Update for openexr (CVE-2021-3478)
  • 181315 Debian Security Update for openexr (DLA 3236-1)
  • 198318 Ubuntu Security Notification for Openexr Vulnerabilities (USN-4900-1)
  • 501648 Alpine Linux Security Update for openexr
  • 502133 Alpine Linux Security Update for openexr
  • 672178 EulerOS Security Update for openexr (EulerOS-SA-2022-2475)
  • 690438 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for openexr, ilmbase (98044aba-6d72-11eb-aed7-1b1b8a70cc8b)
  • 710048 Gentoo Linux OpenEXR Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202107-27)
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