NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting openexr package, versions [3.3.2,3.3.3)
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- published1 Aug 2025
- disclosed31 Jul 2025
- creditsuidpit, TheZ3ro, nico, Abdel Adim `smaury` Oisfi
Introduced: 31 Jul 2025
CVE-2025-48073 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade OpenEXR to version 3.3.3 or higher.
Overview
OpenEXR is a Python bindings for the OpenEXR image file format
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference via the ScanLineProcess::run_fill function when processing deep scanline images with large sample counts in reduceMemory mode. An attacker can cause the application to crash by providing a specially crafted image file that triggers a NULL pointer dereference during a write operation.