Heap-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openexr (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-OPENEXR-11476114
- published5 Aug 2025
- disclosed1 Feb 2024
Introduced: 1 Feb 2024
CVE-2023-5841 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openexr package and not the openexr package as distributed by RHEL.
Due to a failure in validating the number of scanline samples of a OpenEXR file containing deep scanline data, Academy Software Foundation OpenEX image parsing library version 3.2.1 and prior is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue was resolved as of versions v3.2.2 and v3.1.12 of the affected library.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5841
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/32
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/34
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/36
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LSB6DB5LAKGPLRXEF5HDNGUMT7GIFT2C/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWMINVKQLSUHECXBSQMZFCSDRIHFOJJI/
- https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-5841.html