Configuration Affecting openexr package, versions <1.6.1-4.1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.44% (75th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-OPENEXR-522250
- published 31 Jul 2009
- disclosed 31 Jul 2009
Introduced: 31 Jul 2009
CVE-2009-1721 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
openexr
to version 1.6.1-4.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openexr
package and not the openexr
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
The decompression implementation in the Imf::hufUncompress function in OpenEXR 1.2.2 and 1.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger a free of an uninitialized pointer.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1721
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1842
- http://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable_diffs/openexr_1.6.1-3%2Blenny3.debdiff
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openexr/openexr_1.2.2-4.3+etch2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openexr/openexr_1.6.1-3+lenny3.diff.gz
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01286.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01290.html
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2035
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36030
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36032
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36096
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36123
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36753
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35838
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022674
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-09/msg00000.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-831-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:190
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:191