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Medium ALAS2-2023-2078 5 CVEs

Moderate: OpenEXR security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jun 5, 2023 · Updated Jun 7, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3605: There's a flaw in OpenEXR's rleUncompress functionality in versions prior to 3.0.5. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to an application linked with OpenEXR could cause an out-of-bounds read. The greatest risk from this flaw is to application availability. CVE-2021-3475: There is a flaw in OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.0-beta. An attacker who can submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could cause an integer overflow, potentially leading to problems with application availability. CVE-2021-20304: A flaw was found in OpenEXR's hufDecode functionality. This flaw allows an attacker who can pass a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR, to trigger an undefined right shift error. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. CVE-2021-20303: A flaw found in function dataWindowForTile() of IlmImf/ImfTiledMisc.cpp. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could trigger an integer overflow, leading to an out-of-bounds write on the heap. The greatest impact of this flaw is to application availability, with some potential impact to data integrity as well. CVE-2021-20298: A flaw was found in OpenEXR's B44Compressor. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR, to exhaust all memory accessible to the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 OpenEXR 0:1.7.1-8.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 OpenEXR-debuginfo 0:1.7.1-8.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 OpenEXR-devel 0:1.7.1-8.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 OpenEXR-libs 0:1.7.1-8.amzn2.0.2

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-20298.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-20303.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-20304.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3475.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3605.html