VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2021-3478
An attacker able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could consume excessive system memory.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.96%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.96%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
There's a flaw in OpenEXR's scanline input file functionality in versions before 3.0.0-beta. An attacker able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could consume excessive system memory. The greatest impact of this flaw is to system availability.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.96% probability · 60th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400, CWE-770
- Affected
- openexr/openexr · debian/debian linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=27409Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939160Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00001.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-27Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=27409Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939160Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00001.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-27Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.