Out-of-bounds write in OpenEXR - CVE-2020-11763

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Out-of-bounds write in OpenEXR - CVE-2020-11763

Published: April 15, 2020 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU34467
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-11763
CWE-ID: CWE-787
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before 2.4.1. There is an std::vector out-of-bounds read and write, as demonstrated by ImfTileOffsets.cpp.


Affected software

OpenEXR
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Opensuse
openEuler
Fedora
openexr (Debian package)
OpenEXR (Red Hat package)
OpenEXR
OpenEXR-debuginfo
OpenEXR-devel
OpenEXR-libs
OpenEXR-debugsource
mingw-openexr
mingw-ilmbase
Data Computing Appliance (DCA)

How to mitigate CVE-2020-11763

Install update from vendor's website.

OpenEXR - update to 2.4.1
openexr (Debian package) - update to 2.2.1-4.1+deb10u1
OpenEXR (Red Hat package) - update to 1.7.1-8.el7
OpenEXR - update to 2.2.0-22
OpenEXR-debuginfo - update to 2.2.0-22
OpenEXR-devel - update to 2.2.0-22
OpenEXR-libs - update to 2.2.0-22
OpenEXR-debugsource - update to 2.2.0-22
mingw-openexr - update to 2.4.1-1.fc32
mingw-ilmbase - update to 2.4.1-1.fc32
Data Computing Appliance (DCA) - update to 4.3.0.0

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