Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openexr  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2110-OPENEXR-1736033
  • published1 Apr 2021
  • disclosed31 Mar 2021

Introduced: 31 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-3479  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:21.10.

NVD Description

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

There's a flaw in OpenEXR's Scanline API functionality in versions before 3.0.0-beta. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could trigger excessive consumption of memory, resulting in an impact to system availability.