Vulnerability · Published Mar 31, 2021 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2021-3477

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity integer overflow in OpenEXR. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 62% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 38.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20openexr2.5.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3477
Alpine:v3.21openexr2.5.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3477
Alpine:v3.22openexr2.5.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3477
Alpine:v3.23openexr2.5.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3477
Alpine:v3.24openexr2.5.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3477
Debian:12openexr2.5.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3477
Debian:13openexr2.5.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3477
Debian:14openexr2.5.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3477

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a OpenEXR OpenEXR 3.0.0-beta

Weakness: CWE-190

References