Resource Exhaustion Affecting openexr package, versions <2.2.0-11+deb9u3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.09% (37th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-OPENEXR-1090125
- published 1 Apr 2021
- disclosed 31 Mar 2021
Introduced: 31 Mar 2021
CVE-2021-3478 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
openexr
to version 2.2.0-11+deb9u3 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:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
There'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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3478
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=27409
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939160
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00001.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-27
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html