Medium
Security advisory
A flaw found in function dataWindowForTile() of IlmImf/ImfTiledMisc.cpp. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could trigger an integer overflow, leading to an out-of-bounds write on the heap. The greatest impact of this flaw is to application availability, with some potential impact to data integrity as well.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-20303
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw found in function dataWindowForTile() of IlmImf/ImfTiledMisc.cpp. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could trigger an integer overflow, leading to an out-of-bounds write on the heap. The greatest impact of this flaw is to application availability, with some potential impact to data integrity as well.
osv:CVE-2021-20303
Complete source record
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