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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-45942: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-45942: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/31/2021
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

OpenEXR 3.1.x before 3.1.4 has a heap-based buffer overflow in Imf_3_1::LineCompositeTask::execute (called from IlmThread_3_1::NullThreadPoolProvider::addTask and IlmThread_3_1::ThreadPool::addGlobalTask). NOTE: db217f2 may be inapplicable.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openexr

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