NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package OpenEXR-libs  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-OPENEXRLIBS-1341915
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed10 Dec 2020

Introduced: 10 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-16588  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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 OpenEXR-libs package and not the OpenEXR-libs package as distributed by RHEL.

A Null Pointer Deference issue exists in Academy Software Foundation OpenEXR 2.3.0 in generatePreview in makePreview.cpp that can cause a denial of service via a crafted EXR file.