| Name | CVE-2021-3605 |
| Description | There's a flaw in OpenEXR's rleUncompress functionality in versions prior to 3.0.5. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to an application linked with OpenEXR could cause an out-of-bounds read. The greatest risk from this flaw is to application availability. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2732-1, DLA-3236-1, DSA-5299-1, ELA-469-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 990899 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| openexr (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.6.1-8+deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2.2.0-11+deb9u4 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.2.1-4.1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 2.5.4-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.1.5-5 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.1.5-5.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/pull/1036
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/25259a84827234a283f6f9db72978198c7a3f268 (master)
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/3204008c0bd4c8d7599a052b304d1b44c4511283 (v2.5)
not to be confused with CVE-2020-11760 whose fix is similar but applied around 10 lines above, in the other branch of the 'if'