CVE-2021-20303: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw found in function dataWindowForTile() of IlmImf/ImfTiledMisc.cpp. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could trigger an integer overflow, leading to an out-of-bounds write on the heap. The greatest impact of this flaw is to application availability, with some potential impact to data integrity as well.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
  • Openexr Openexr: before 2.5.4 (fixed in 2.5.4)

Published 2022-03-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.