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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: USN-4996-1 Moderate: OpenEXR Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey June 22, 2021
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Numerous vulnerabilities resolved in OpenEXR, allowing for potential service interruption and unauthorized code execution in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Several security issues were fixed in OpenEXR.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenEXR.

Software Description:

- openexr: tools for the OpenEXR image format

Details:

It was discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed EXR

image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image file,

a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute

arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution moderate severity vulnerability ubuntu openexr

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libopenexr22                    2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.7
  openexr                         2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.7

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4996-1

CVE-2021-20296, CVE-2021-23215, CVE-2021-26260, CVE-2021-3598,

CVE-2021-3605

June 22, 2021

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution moderate severity vulnerability ubuntu openexr

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openexr/2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.7

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