| Name | CVE-2023-5841 |
| Description | Due to a failure in validating the number of scanline samples of a OpenEXR file containing deep scanline data, Academy Software Foundation OpenEX image parsing library version 3.2.1 and prior is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue was resolved as of versions v3.2.2 and v3.1.12 of the affected library. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1063414 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| openexr (PTS) | buster | 2.2.1-4.1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.2.1-4.1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 2.5.4-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.1.5-5 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 3.1.5-5.1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| openexr | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| openexr | source | bullseye | (not affected) | | | |
| openexr | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | 1063414 |
Notes
[bookworm] - openexr <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - openexr <not-affected> (Only affects 3.x)
[buster] - openexr <not-affected> (Only affects 3.x)
https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-5841.html
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/issues/1625
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/46944c3a87ebc6c5d9a9a4962a94569ba1082bc3
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/1627