CVE-2021-23169

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A heap-buffer overflow was found in the copyIntoFrameBuffer function of OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.1. An attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application compiled against OpenEXR.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-23169

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23169.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archaffected
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.5.4-2
debian debianbullseyefixed2.5.4-2
debian debianforkyfixed2.5.4-2
debian debiansidfixed2.5.4-2
debian debiantrixiefixed2.5.4-2

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.