vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-3479: OpenEXR: Out-of-memory caused by allocation of a very large buffer

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 31, 2021
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

There's a flaw in OpenEXR's Scanline API functionality in versions before 3.0.0-beta. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could trigger excessive consumption of memory, resulting in an impact to system availability.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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