A flaw was found in OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.0-beta. A crafted input file supplied by an attacker, that is processed by the Dwa decompression functionality of OpenEXR's IlmImf library, could cause a NULL pointer dereference. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Related CVEs

CVE-2021-20296

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-h585-99w7-8g9c

Published

May 24, 2022 5:46 PM

Last Modified

October 7, 2022 6:16 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: August 2, 2025 6:46 AM

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