vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-42715: stb: DoS in stb_image HDR loader via a crafted file

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 21, 2021
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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