CVE-2021-20302

MEDIUM

OpenEXR - Denial of Service via TiledInputFile Floating-Point Exception

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in OpenEXR's TiledInputFile functionality. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted single-part non-image to be processed by OpenEXR, to trigger a floating-point exception error. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939161

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0091
EPSS Percentile 55.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
openexr/openexr < 2.5.4
Published Mar 04, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026