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ubuntu-cve-2021-20302

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2022-03-04 18:15

Modified

2026-05-08 09:50

Summary

Details

A flaw was found in OpenEXR's TiledInputFile functionality. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted single-part non-image to be processed by OpenEXR, to trigger a floating-point exception error. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      negligible

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-20302	REPORT
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20302	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-20302	REPORT

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  "modified": "2026-05-08T09:50:04Z",
  "published": "2022-03-04T18:15:00Z",
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CVE-2021-20302 (GCVE-0-2021-20302)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-04 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:37

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-20 - - Improper Input Validation

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939161
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detai…
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/open…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022…	mailing-list

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	OpenEXR	Affected: Fixed in v2.5.4 and beyond.

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