Uncontrolled Recursion in oiio - CVE-2023-24472

 

Uncontrolled Recursion in oiio - CVE-2023-24472

Published: April 4, 2023 / Updated: April 11, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU74384
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-24472
CWE-ID: CWE-674
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 uncontrolled recursion in the FitsOutput::close() functionality. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

oiio
Fedora
OpenImageIO

How to mitigate CVE-2023-24472

Install updates from vendor's website.

oiio - update to 2.4.8.1
OpenImageIO - addressed in versions 2.4.8.1-1.el9, 2.4.8.1-1.fc37

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