Debian LinuxOperating system · Debian

CVE-2022-36354

MEDIUM · 5.3 CVSS v3.1 Published 2022-12-22
No fix yet
No fix has been published. The vendor has not shipped a fixed release or patch. You remain exposed.
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62/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Public exploit Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
A heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the RLA format parser of OpenImageIO master-branch-9aeece7a and v2.3.19.0. More specifically, in the way run-length encoded byte spans are handled. A malformed RLA file can lead to an out-of-bounds read of heap metadata which can result in sensitive information leak. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

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NVD · CPE data
Debian LinuxOperating system
Affected:= 11.0
OpenimageioApplication
Affected:= 2.3.19.0

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From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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dbcve · scoped
Recommended fix Moderate confidence

OpenImageIO v2.3.20.0 or later (fixed release after v2.3.19.0)

  1. 1. Identify the OpenImageIO version currently installed: dpkg -l | grep openimageio or oiiotool --version
  2. 2. For Debian 11.0 systems, check for available security updates: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -s | grep openimageio
  3. 3. If a newer fixed version is available in Debian security repositories, upgrade: apt-get update && apt-get install --only-upgrade libopenimageio
  4. 4. If no Debian package update is available, consider building OpenImageIO from source from the master branch after commit 9aeece7a which contains the fix
  5. 5. Verify the fix by running oiiotool --version to confirm the updated version is installed
  6. 6. Test that RLA file processing works correctly with the updated version
Caveat Minor: Upgrading OpenImageIO point releases typically has low risk but may introduce subtle changes in image processing behavior; test critical workflows

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