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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2020-11758
CVE-2020-11758:
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before 2.4.1 involving an out-of-bounds read in ImfOptimizedPixelReading.h. The vulnerability was assigned CVE-2020-11758 and was discovered by Xingwei Lin of Ant-Financial Light-Year Security Lab (OpenEXR Release, Apple Advisory).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as an out-of-bounds read issue in the ImfOptimizedPixelReading.h component of OpenEXR. It has a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.5 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (NVD).
Impact
If exploited, this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code when processing malformed EXR image files (Debian Advisory).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability was fixed in OpenEXR version 2.4.1. Users should upgrade to this version or later. Multiple Linux distributions have released security updates including Ubuntu (USN-4339-1), Debian (DSA-4755), and Fedora (Fedora Advisory).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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