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Out-of-bounds Write

CVE-2021-23169

High
8.8/10

Summary

A heap-buffer overflow was found in the copyIntoFrameBuffer function of OpenEXR in versions before 2.5.7. An attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application compiled against OpenEXR.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-787 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Out-of-bounds write vulnerability is a memory access bug that allows software to write data past the end or before the beginning of the intended buffer. This may result in the corruption of data, a crash, or arbitrary code execution.

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  • Published