Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openexr  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-OPENEXR-2738530
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed2 Aug 2019

Introduced: 2 Aug 2019

CVE-2017-14988  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openexr package and not the openexr package as distributed by SLES.

Header::readfrom in IlmImf/ImfHeader.cpp in OpenEXR 2.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) via a crafted file that is accessed with the ImfOpenInputFile function in IlmImf/ImfCRgbaFile.cpp. NOTE: The maintainer and multiple third parties believe that this vulnerability isn't valid