Out-of-bounds Read Affecting openexr package, versions <2.5.3-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-OPENEXR-1555626
  • published27 Apr 2020
  • disclosed14 Apr 2020

Introduced: 14 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-11762  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 openexr to version 2.5.3-2 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:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before 2.4.1. There is an out-of-bounds read and write in DwaCompressor::uncompress in ImfDwaCompressor.cpp when handling the UNKNOWN compression case.

CVSS Scores

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