Out-of-bounds Write Affecting academysoftwarefoundation/openexr package, versions [,2.5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ACADEMYSOFTWAREFOUNDATIONOPENEXR-2319370
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed26 Jun 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-15306  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (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 Out-of-bounds Write. An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before v2.5.2. Invalid chunkCount attributes could cause a heap buffer overflow in getChunkOffsetTableSize() in IlmImf/ImfMisc.cpp.

CVSS Scores

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