Bug 1939160 (CVE-2021-3478) - CVE-2021-3478 OpenEXR: Out-of-memory in ScanLineInputFile
Summary: CVE-2021-3478 OpenEXR: Out-of-memory in ScanLineInputFile
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2021-3478
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1939190 1944794 1944795 1944796 1944797
Blocks: 1929339 1944841
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Reported: 2021-03-15 17:27 UTC by Michael Kaplan
Modified: 2022-04-17 21:13 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: OpenEXR 3.0.0-beta, OpenEXR 2.4.3
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There's a flaw in OpenEXR's scanline input file functionality. An attacker able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could consume excessive system memory. The greatest impact of this flaw is to system availability.
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Last Closed: 2021-11-02 23:22:40 UTC
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Description Michael Kaplan 2021-03-15 17:27:49 UTC 
Out-of-memory in openexr_exrcheck_fuzzer
Comment 1 Michael Kaplan 2021-03-15 17:27:54 UTC 
External References:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=27409
Comment 2 Michael Kaplan 2021-03-15 17:46:03 UTC 
Created OpenEXR tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1939190]
Comment 3 Todd Cullum 2021-03-30 16:49:38 UTC 
This looks like the upstream patch commit: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/bc88cdb6c97fbf5bc5d11ad8ca55306da931283a

Flaw summary:

In ImfScanLineInputFile.cpp, large lineOffset and bytesPerLine tables could cause OpenEXR to allocate excessive memory, causing an impact to system availability. This was due to _data->linesInBuffer missing in the if check.
Comment 6 Cary Phillips 2021-04-23 01:49:56 UTC 
This is fixed in OpenEXR v2.5.4, v2.5.5, and v3.0.1 and beyond.
Comment 7 Cary Phillips 2021-05-25 21:40:49 UTC 
This is also fixed in OpenEXR v2.4.3
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/blob/master/CHANGES.md#version-243-may-17-2021
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