GHSA-xq9j-995w-vvw2

GHSA-xq9j-995w-vvw2 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published March 17, 2022

A flaw was found in OpenEXR's Multipart input file functionality. A crafted multi-part input file with no actual parts can trigger a NULL pointer dereference. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Timeline

Mar 17, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20299 advisory
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=25740 url
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939154 url
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/25e9515b06a6bc293d871622b8cafaee7af84e0f fix
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html advisory

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