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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-6149

A heap overflow vulnerability exists in Pixar OpenUSD 20.05 when the software parses compressed sections in binary USD files. To trigger this vulnerability, the victim needs to open an attacker-provided malformed file in an instance in USDC file format PATHS section.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:28 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-6149

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 Nov 2020, 15:15 UTC

A heap overflow vulnerability exists in Pixar OpenUSD 20.05 when the software parses compressed sections in binary USD files. To trigger this vulnerability, the victim needs to open an attacker-provided malformed file in an instance in USDC file format PATHS section.

osv:CVE-2020-6149
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