CVE-2021-3478
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3478
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-3478.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-3478
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2021-03-31T14:15:21.127Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-05T07:08:57.141754Z
- Severity
-
- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
There's a flaw in OpenEXR's scanline input file functionality in versions before 3.0.0-beta. An attacker able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could consume excessive system memory. The greatest impact of this flaw is to system availability.
- References
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- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=27409
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939160
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00001.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-27
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=27409
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939160
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939160
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00022.html
Affected packages
Git / github.com/openexr/openexr
Database specific
vanir_signatures
[
{
"deprecated": false,
"source": "https://github.com/openexr/openexr/commit/7bab6d44caf65ee3cabe31553f8e2968c8747be5",
"id": "CVE-2021-3478-3b14fd36",
"target": {
"file": "OpenEXR/IlmImf/ImfScanLineInputFile.cpp",
"function": "ScanLineInputFile::initialize"
},
"digest": {
"function_hash": "147499493693564905582259429661292444797",
"length": 1690.0
},
"signature_type": "Function",
"signature_version": "v1"
},
{
"deprecated": false,
"source": "https://github.com/openexr/openexr/commit/7bab6d44caf65ee3cabe31553f8e2968c8747be5",
"id": "CVE-2021-3478-bea1d206",
"target": {
"file": "OpenEXR/IlmImf/ImfScanLineInputFile.cpp"
},
"digest": {
"line_hashes": [
"183799983013183831380237481661086301550",
"111519733374137260985206676436366582935",
"338562742485568351177658719788975857619",
"84570287594119879542064273017314287589",
"152453817114836365619507449973532304004",
"152126518450649847430180110668365421093",
"334371091860315902789981231789629231501"
],
"threshold": 0.9
},
"signature_type": "Line",
"signature_version": "v1"
}
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-3478.json"