vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-42715: libstb -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 21, 2021
Added
Feb 2, 2023
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in stb stb_image.h 1.33 through 2.27. The HDR loader parsed truncated end-of-file RLE scanlines as an infinite sequence of zero-length runs. An attacker could potentially have caused denial of service in applications using stb_image by submitting crafted HDR files.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-libstbno-fix-debian-deb-package
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