CVE-2025-48073 (GCVE-0-2025-48073)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-31 20:25
Modified
2025-07-31 20:36
Severity ?
4.6 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Summary
OpenEXR provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, an image storage format for the motion picture industry. In version 3.3.2, when reading a deep scanline image with a large sample count in reduceMemory mode, it is possible to crash a target application with a NULL pointer dereference in a write operation. This is fixed in version 3.3.3.
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AcademySoftwareFoundation openexr Version: >= 3.3.2, < 3.3.3
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