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openexr — security advisory
Due to a failure in validating the number of scanline samples of a OpenEXR file containing deep scanline data, Academy Software Foundation OpenEX image parsing library version 3.2.1 and prior is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue was resolved as of versions v3.2.2 and v3.1.12 of the affected library.
- Products
- openexr
- Affected versions
- 3.1.13-1, 3.1.13-2, 3.1.5-5, 3.1.5-5.1, 3.1.5-5.1+hurd.1, 3.4.14-0.1, 3.4.15+ds-1, 3.4.16+ds-1, 3.4.6+ds-1, 3.4.6+ds-2, 3.4.6+ds-3, 3.4.6+ds-4, 3.5.2+ds-1
- Fixed versions
- 3.1.13-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-5841
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Due to a failure in validating the number of scanline samples of a OpenEXR file containing deep scanline data, Academy Software Foundation OpenEX image parsing library version 3.2.1 and prior is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue was resolved as of versions v3.2.2 and v3.1.12 of the affected library.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5841
openexr
Fixed versions: Not specified
openexr
Fixed versions: 3.1.13-1
openexr
Fixed versions: 3.1.13-1
Complete source record
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