CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-20296
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-04-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
A flaw was found in OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.0-beta. A crafted input file supplied by an attacker, that is processed by the Dwa decompression functionality of OpenEXR's IlmImf library, could cause a NULL pointer dereference. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Affected configurations
• openexr openexr (< 2.4.3)
• openexr openexr (>= 2.5.0 < 2.5.4)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=24854 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939141 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-27 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=24854 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939141 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-27 Third Party Advisory