vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-20296: OpenEXR: Segv on unknown address in Imf_2_5::hufUncompress - Null Pointer dereference

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 1, 2021
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.0-beta. A crafted input file supplied by an attacker, that is processed by the Dwa decompression functionality of OpenEXR's IlmImf library, could cause a NULL pointer dereference. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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