CVE-2021-20300

NameCVE-2021-20300
DescriptionA flaw was found in OpenEXR's hufUncompress functionality in OpenEXR/IlmImf/ImfHuf.cpp. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted file that is processed by OpenEXR, to trigger an integer overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2732-1, DLA-3236-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
openexr (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye2.5.4-2+deb11u1fixed
bookworm3.1.5-5fixed
sid, trixie3.1.5-5.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
openexrsourcestretch2.2.0-11+deb9u4DLA-2732-1
openexrsourcebuster2.2.1-4.1+deb10u2DLA-3236-1
openexrsource(unstable)2.5.4-1

Notes

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25562
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/ed560b8a932c78d5e8e5990ce36fe7808b35d9f0 (master)
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/4212416433a230334cef0ac122cb8d722746035d (2.5.x)

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