CVE-2009-1720

EPSS 19.2%

openexr - several vulnerabilities

Published: 7/31/2009Modified: 3/9/2026

Also known as:DSA-1842-1DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1720

Description

Multiple integer overflows in OpenEXR 1.2.2 and 1.6.1 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger heap-based buffer overflows, related to (1) the Imf::PreviewImage::PreviewImage function and (2) compressor constructors. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/openexrfrom 0, < 1.6.1-4.1
Debian/openexrfrom 0, < 1.2.2-4.3+etch2

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1720