CVE-2023-5841

Published: 1 February 2024

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.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
openexr Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	focal	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	jammy	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	mantic	Needed
	noble	Needs triage
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Not vulnerable (code not present)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.1
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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