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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-20303: Security patch for OpenEXR (ALAS-2023-2078)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-20303: Security patch for OpenEXR (ALAS-2023-2078)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/04/2022
Created
06/08/2023
Added
06/08/2023
Modified
06/08/2023

Description

A flaw found in function dataWindowForTile() of IlmImf/ImfTiledMisc.cpp. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could trigger an integer overflow, leading to an out-of-bounds write on the heap. The greatest impact of this flaw is to application availability, with some potential impact to data integrity as well.

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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