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Use After Free

CVE-2020-15305

Severity Medium
Score 5.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before 2.4.2 and 2.5..x before 2.5.2. Invalid input could cause a use-after-free in "DeepScanLineInputFile::DeepScanLineInputFile()" in "IlmImf/ImfDeepScanLineInputFile.cpp".

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

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published