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SUSE: CVE-2021-20296: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/01/2021
Created
05/08/2021
Added
05/06/2021
Modified
10/26/2022

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(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libilmimf-2_2-23
  • suse-upgrade-libilmimf-2_2-23-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libilmimfutil-2_2-23
  • suse-upgrade-libilmimfutil-2_2-23-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-openexr
  • suse-upgrade-openexr-devel
  • suse-upgrade-openexr-doc

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