An issue was discovered in stb stb_image.h 1.33 through 2.27. The HDR loader parsed truncated end-of-file RLE scanlines as an infinite sequence of zero-length runs. An attacker could potentially have caused denial of service in applications using stb_image by submitting crafted HDR files. Reference: https://github.com/nothings/stb/issues/1224 Upstream patch: https://github.com/nothings/stb/pull/1223
Created stb tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-all [bug 2017910] Affects: fedora-all [bug 2017911]
Updates applying the fix (PR#1223) are already in Rawhide and are in testing for stable releases. I have aligned all stable releases and EPELs so that stb_image >= 2.27-0.7 contain patches for CVE-2021-28021, CVE-2021-42715, and CVE-2021-42716. I will modify these updates to associate the appropriate newly-created bugs. Since stb_image is a header-only library, dependent packages need to be rebuilt to benefit from the fix. I have created buildroot overrides to allow this while updates are still in testing, and some dependent packages have already been updated in some releases. Since stb_image is designed to be bundled, there are probably a number of packages containing bundled copies that are affected. Many of these are likely undeclared (missing Provides: bundled(stb) or Provides: bundled(stb_image)).
To clarify the status for cogl and clutter: The cogl library contains an old version of stb_image.c, however this is only compiled in when cogl in when gdk-pixbuf support is disabled. cogl as shipped in RHEL and Fedora uses gdk-pixbuf, so is not affected by this vulnerability. This also applies to the bundled copy of cogl inside clutter in RHEL 6 and very old versions of Fedora.