Medium
Security advisory
An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in the function tinyexr::AllocateImage in tinyexr.h in tinyexr v0.9.5. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via crafted input, which leads to an out-of-memory exception.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-20652
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- 31 Oct 2026, 10:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in the function tinyexr::AllocateImage in tinyexr.h in tinyexr v0.9.5. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via crafted input, which leads to an out-of-memory exception.
osv:CVE-2018-20652
Complete source record
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