NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting academysoftwarefoundation/openexr package, versions [,2.5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ACADEMYSOFTWAREFOUNDATIONOPENEXR-2319356
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed26 Jun 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-15304  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade academysoftwarefoundation/openexr to version 2.5.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before 2.5.2. An invalid tiled input file could cause invalid memory access in TiledInputFile::TiledInputFile() in IlmImf/ImfTiledInputFile.cpp, as demonstrated by a NULL pointer dereference.

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