CVE-2021-3477: Out-of-bounds Read

March 31, 2021 (updated November 7, 2023)

There’s a flaw in OpenEXR’s deep tile sample size calculations . An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could trigger an integer overflow, subsequently leading to an out-of-bounds read. The greatest risk of this flaw is to application availability.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939159
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3477

Code Behaviors & Features

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