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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-11761: Security patch for OpenEXR (ALAS-2020-1499)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-11761: Security patch for OpenEXR (ALAS-2020-1499)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/14/2020
Created
10/28/2020
Added
10/28/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before 2.4.1. There is an out-of-bounds read during Huffman uncompression, as demonstrated by FastHufDecoder::refill in ImfFastHuf.cpp.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openexr
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openexr-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openexr-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openexr-libs

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