CVE-2023-5841criticalCWE-122

CVE-2023-5841: critical vulnerability in Academy Software Foundation OpenEXR

OpenEXR Heap Overflow in Scanline Deep Data Parsing

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28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 9.1epss 1.2%
Due to a failure in validating the number of scanline samples of a OpenEXR file containing deep scanline data, Academy Software Foundation OpenEX image parsing library version 3.2.1 and prior is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue was resolved as of versions v3.2.2 and v3.1.12 of the affected library.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products
Academy Software Foundation · OpenEXR
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