Medium
Security advisory
There's a flaw in OpenEXR's scanline input file functionality in versions before 3.0.0-beta. An attacker able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could consume excessive system memory. The greatest impact of this flaw is to system availability.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-3478
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
There's a flaw in OpenEXR's scanline input file functionality in versions before 3.0.0-beta. An attacker able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could consume excessive system memory. The greatest impact of this flaw is to system availability.
osv:CVE-2021-3478
Complete source record
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