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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2021-23169: OpenEXR: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2021-23169: OpenEXR: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/08/2021
Created
10/31/2022
Added
10/31/2022
Modified
10/31/2022

Description

A heap-buffer overflow was found in the copyIntoFrameBuffer function of OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.1. An attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application compiled against OpenEXR.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-openexr

References

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