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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-26945

An integer overflow leading to a heap-buffer overflow was found in OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.1. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application compiled with OpenEXR.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:09 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-26945

core-osv · Original source

Published 8 Jun 2021, 12:15 UTC

An integer overflow leading to a heap-buffer overflow was found in OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.1. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application compiled with OpenEXR.

osv:CVE-2021-26945
Complete source record
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