High
Security advisory
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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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-6149
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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
Complete source record
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