[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#990450: openexr: CVE-2021-3598

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: openexr
Version: 2.5.4-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/issues/1033
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for openexr.

CVE-2021-3598[0]:
| OpenEXR: Heap buffer overflow in Imf_3_1::CharPtrIO::readChars

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3598
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3598
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1970987
[2] https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/issues/1033
[3] https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/566f5241edd87445373885d5f7a904dc81e866c1

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore