Resource Exhaustion Affecting openexr-devel package, versions <2.2.1-3.27.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.1% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-OPENEXRDEVEL-2681213
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed4 May 2021

Introduced: 4 May 2021

CVE-2021-26260  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 openexr-devel to version 2.2.1-3.27.1 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:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

An integer overflow leading to a heap-buffer overflow was found in the DwaCompressor of OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.1. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application compiled with OpenEXR. This is a different flaw from CVE-2021-23215.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1