Memory leak in OpenEXR - CVE-2018-18443
Published: August 19, 2019 / Updated: January 3, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU20311
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-2018-18443
CWE-ID: CWE-401
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 memory leak within ThreadPool in IlmBase/IlmThread/IlmThreadPool.cpp, as demonstrated by exrmultiview. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.
Affected software
OpenEXR
Fedora
mingw-openexr
mingw-ilmbase
Fedora
mingw-openexr
mingw-ilmbase
How to mitigate CVE-2018-18443
Install update from vendor's website.
mingw-openexr - addressed in versions 2.2.1-5.fc30, 2.3.0-3.fc31
mingw-ilmbase - update to 2.3.0-3.fc31
mingw-ilmbase - update to 2.3.0-3.fc31