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ubuntu-cve-2023-5841

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2024-02-01 19:15

Modified

2026-05-08 09:57

Summary

Details

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.

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


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

9.1 (Critical)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-5841	REPORT
	https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-5841.html	REPORT
	https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/open…	REPORT
	https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/open…	REPORT
	https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/open…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5841	REPORT

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CVE-2023-5841 (GCVE-0-2023-5841)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-01 18:28 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:10

Title

OpenEXR Heap Overflow in Scanline Deep Data Parsing

Summary

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Assigner

AHA

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-5841.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/36
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/34
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/32

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Academy Software Foundation	OpenEXR	Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.2.1 (semver) Unaffected: 3.2.2 Unaffected: 3.1.12

Date Public

2024-01-31 22:35

Credits

zenofex WanderingGlitch Austin Hackers Anonymous!

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2023-5841 (GCVE-0-2023-5841)

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