CVE-2021-3477
5.5 MEDIUMThere's a flaw in OpenEXR's deep tile sample size calculations in versions before 3.0.0-beta
Published: 2021-03-31 · Last updated: 2026-06-17
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 5.5 MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-125, CWE-190
Affected products
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux, openexr |
| openexr | debian_linux, openexr |
Description
There's a flaw in OpenEXR's deep tile sample size calculations in versions before 3.0.0-beta. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could trigger an integer overflow, subsequently leading to an out-of-bounds read. The greatest risk of this flaw is to application availability.
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3477
- [Other]https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=26956
- [Patch]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939159
- [Other]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00001.html
- [Other]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html
- [Other]https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-27
- [Other]https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=26956
- [Patch]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939159
- [Other]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00001.html
- [Other]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html
- [Other]https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-27
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