CVE-2009-1721
N/A
Published: July 31, 2009 at 06:29 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:07 PM UTC
6 products affected across 6 vendorsmacOSDebian LinuxFedora
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
Description
The decompression implementation in the Imf::hufUncompress function in OpenEXR 1.2.2 and 1.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger a free of an uninitialized pointer.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
v < 10.5.8
Affected range stops below 10.5.8, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-09/msg00000.html
- http://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable_diffs/openexr_1.6.1-3%2Blenny3.debdiff
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36030
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36032
References (22)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing List
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing List
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-09/msg00000.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMBroken LinkPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable_diffs/openexr_1.6.1-3%2Blenny3.debdiffThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken LinkVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/36030Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken LinkVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/36032Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/36096Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/36123Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/36753Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-824
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