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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-41981: OpenImageIO: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 22, 2022
Added
May 31, 2023
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the TGA file format parser of OpenImageIO v2.3.19.0. A specially-crafted targa file can lead to out of bounds read and write on the process stack, which can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-openimageio
Title
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