CVE-2021-3478

MEDIUM

OpenEXR < 3.0.0-beta - Denial of Service via Scanline Input File

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

There's a flaw in OpenEXR's scanline input file functionality in versions before 3.0.0-beta. An attacker able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could consume excessive system memory. The greatest impact of this flaw is to system availability.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-27
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=1939160

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0096
EPSS Percentile 56.9%
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-400 CWE-770
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
openexr/openexr < 2.4.3
Published Mar 31, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026