Out-of-bounds Read Affecting openexr-devel package, versions <2.2.1-3.14.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-OPENEXRDEVEL-2711913
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed18 May 2020

Introduced: 18 May 2020

CVE-2020-11762  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 openexr-devel to version 2.2.1-3.14.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openexr-devel package and not the openexr-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before 2.4.1. There is an out-of-bounds read and write in DwaCompressor::uncompress in ImfDwaCompressor.cpp when handling the UNKNOWN compression case.

CVSS Scores

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