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Medium ALAS2-2023-2241 1 CVE

Moderate: OpenEXR security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Aug 31, 2023 · Updated Sep 7, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3479: There's a flaw in OpenEXR's Scanline API functionality in versions before 3.0.0-beta. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could trigger excessive consumption of memory, resulting in an impact to system availability.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 OpenEXR 0:1.7.1-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 OpenEXR-debuginfo 0:1.7.1-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 OpenEXR-devel 0:1.7.1-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 OpenEXR-libs 0:1.7.1-8.amzn2.0.4

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3479.html