Out-of-bounds Write Affecting mingw32-OpenEXR package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.81% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-MINGW32OPENEXR-1339270
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed8 Feb 2020

Introduced: 8 Feb 2020

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 mingw32-OpenEXR.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mingw32-OpenEXR package and not the mingw32-OpenEXR package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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 Base Scores

version 3.1