Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mingw-OpenEXR (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-MINGWOPENEXR-1363238
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed15 Feb 2021
Introduced: 15 Feb 2021
CVE-2021-3478 (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.
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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-27