Out-of-bounds Read Affecting OpenEXR package, versions <0:1.7.1-8.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.79% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-OPENEXR-8014344
  • published17 Sept 2024
  • disclosed8 Feb 2020

Introduced: 8 Feb 2020

CVE-2020-11761  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 OpenEXR to version 0:1.7.1-8.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:4039.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream OpenEXR package and not the OpenEXR package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before 2.4.1. There is an out-of-bounds read during Huffman uncompression, as demonstrated by FastHufDecoder::refill in ImfFastHuf.cpp.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1