CVE-2021-20296: NULL Pointer Dereference

April 1, 2021 (updated December 13, 2022)

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.

References

bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=24854
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939141
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20296

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