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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: 4739-2 Critical: OpenEXR Memory Leak Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Stay informed about the latest OpenEXR vulnerabilities impacting Ubuntu distributions and discover how to implement critical patches.
Several security issues were fixed in OpenEXR.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service security issue code execution remote code execution Ubuntu update instructions ubuntu OpenEXR openexr

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: libopenexr24 2.3.0-6ubuntu0.3 openexr 2.3.0-6ubuntu0.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: libopenexr22 2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.4 openexr 2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.4 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: libopenexr22 2.2.0-10ubuntu2.4 openexr 2.2.0-10ubuntu2.4 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4676-1

CVE-2020-16587, CVE-2020-16588, CVE-2020-16589

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January 05, 2021

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security advisory denial of service security issue code execution remote code execution Ubuntu update instructions ubuntu OpenEXR openexr

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openexr/2.3.0-6ubuntu0.3 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openexr/2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.4 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openexr/2.2.0-10ubuntu2.4

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