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Out-of-bounds Write

CVE-2023-5841

High
9.1/10

Summary

Due to a failure in validating the number of scanline samples of an OpenEXR file containing deep scanline data, the Academy Software Foundation OpenEX image parsing library is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue affects the package openexr versions through 3.1.11, and 3.2.0-rc through 3.2.1.

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

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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Advisory Timeline

  • Published