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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-20303

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:57 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-20303

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 Mar 2022, 18:15 UTC

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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