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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2020-15304

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before 2.4.2 and 2.5.0 before 2.5.2. An invalid tiled input file could cause invalid memory access in "TiledInputFile::TiledInputFile()" in "IlmImf/ImfTiledInputFile.cpp", as demonstrated by a NULL pointer dereference.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

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  • Published