CVE-2021-3605

MEDIUM

Openexr < 3.0.5 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

There's a flaw in OpenEXR's rleUncompress functionality in versions prior to 3.0.5. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to an application linked with OpenEXR could cause an out-of-bounds read. The greatest risk from this flaw is to application availability.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-31
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5299
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=1970991

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0045
EPSS Percentile 63.9%
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-119 CWE-125
Status published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
debian/debian_linux 11.0
openexr/openexr < 3.0.5
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
Published Aug 25, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026