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openSUSE Leap 15.3 Security Update: Heap Buffer Overflow Fixes

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2021
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A crucial security patch for openexr within openSUSE tackles significant buffer overflow vulnerabilities along with essential corrections.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for openexr fixes the following issues:

- Fixed CVE-2021-3605 [bsc#1187395]: Heap buffer overflow in the

rleUncompress function

- Fixed CVE-2021-3598 [bsc#1187310]: Heap buffer overflow in

Imf_3_1:CharPtrIO:readChars

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important fixes openSUSE patch instructions openexr

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-2158=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libIlmImf-2_2-23-2.2.1-3.32.1

libIlmImf-2_2-23-debuginfo-2.2.1-3.32.1

libIlmImfUtil-2_2-23-2.2.1-3.32.1

libIlmImfUtil-2_2-23-debuginfo-2.2.1-3.32.1

openexr-2.2.1-3.32.1

openexr-debuginfo-2.2.1-3.32.1

openexr-debugsource-2.2.1-3.32.1

openexr-devel-2.2.1-3.32.1

openexr-doc-2.2.1-3.32.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64):

libIlmImf-2_2-23-32bit-2.2.1-3.32.1

libIlmImf-2_2-23-32bit-debuginfo-2.2.1-3.32.1

libIlmImfUtil-2_2-23-32bit-2.2.1-3.32.1

libIlmImfUtil-2_2-23-32bit-debuginfo-2.2.1-3.32.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3598.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3605.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187310

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187395

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2158-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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security advisory buffer overflow important fixes openSUSE patch instructions openexr

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