CVE-2021-3477
mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.010 · 61 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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affected products (20)
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references (23)
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- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=26956cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939159cnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00001.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.htmlcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3477cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163465/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-202107-27.htmlcnnvd
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-27cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/OpenEXR-six-vulnerabilities-35001cnnvd
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