CVE-2009-1722: openexr

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2009-1722 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability in openexr. EPSS estimates a 4.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 31-07-2009
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the compression implementation in OpenEXR 1.2.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.