UBUNTU-CVE-2020-11762

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-11762

    Published: 14 Apr 2020Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-11762
    Aliases:
    USN-4339-1

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before 2.4.1. There is an out-of-bounds read and write in DwaCompressor::uncompress in ImfDwaCompressor.cpp when handling the UNKNOWN compression case.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-11762, https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/blob/master/CHANGES.md#version-241-february-11-2020, https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/releases/tag/v2.4.1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4339-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11762

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: openexr

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.2.0-10ubuntu2.2

    Affected versions

    2.2.0-1ubuntu3
    2.2.0-7ubuntu1
    2.2.0-9ubuntu1
    2.2.0-10ubuntu2
    2.2.0-10ubuntu2.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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    Availability
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