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Access of Uninitialized Pointer

CVE-2009-1721

Medium
6.8/10

Summary

The decompression implementation in the Imf::hufUncompress function in OpenEXR 1.2.2 and 1.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger a free of an uninitialized pointer.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
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CWE-824 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer

The program accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized.

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