CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-3479

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-03-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-03-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-770

Description

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.

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 (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References