CVE-2021-3605

NameCVE-2021-3605
DescriptionThere'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.
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, DSA-5299-1
Debian Bugs990899

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
openexr (PTS)buster2.2.1-4.1+deb10u1vulnerable
buster (security)2.2.1-4.1+deb10u2fixed
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
openexrsourcebullseye2.5.4-2+deb11u1DSA-5299-1
openexrsource(unstable)2.5.7-1990899

Notes

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/1036
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/25259a84827234a283f6f9db72978198c7a3f268 (master)
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/3204008c0bd4c8d7599a052b304d1b44c4511283 (v2.5)
not to be confused with CVE-2020-11760 whose fix is similar but applied around 10 lines above, in the other branch of the 'if'

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