Resource exhaustion in OpenEXR - CVE-2017-14988
Published: August 19, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU20310
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14988
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error within the Header::readfrom() function in IlmImf/ImfHeader.cpp. A remote attacker can use a specially crafted file to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
OpenEXR
Opensuse
Fedora
mingw-openexr
Opensuse
Fedora
mingw-openexr
How to mitigate CVE-2017-14988
Install updates from vendor's website.
OpenEXR - update to 2.3.0
mingw-openexr - addressed in versions 2.2.0-6.fc26, 2.2.0-7.fc27
mingw-openexr - addressed in versions 2.2.0-6.fc26, 2.2.0-7.fc27