Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mingw-OpenEXR (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-MINGWOPENEXR-1355411
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed17 Mar 2021
Introduced: 17 Mar 2021
CVE-2021-23169 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mingw-OpenEXR package and not the mingw-OpenEXR package as distributed by RHEL.
A heap-buffer overflow was found in the copyIntoFrameBuffer function of OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.1. An attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application compiled against OpenEXR.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23169
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KYNJSMVA6YJY5NMKDZ5SAISKZG2KCKC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BXFLD4ZAXKAIWO6ZPBCQEEDZB5IG676K/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1947612
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KYNJSMVA6YJY5NMKDZ5SAISKZG2KCKC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BXFLD4ZAXKAIWO6ZPBCQEEDZB5IG676K/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-31