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openexr: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):openexr CVE #(s):CVE-2009-1720 CVE-2009-1721 CVE-2009-1722
Created:July 28, 2009 Updated:December 8, 2009
Description: From the Debian advisory: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenEXR image library, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

Drew Yao discovered integer overflows in the preview and compression code. (CVE-2009-1720)

Drew Yao discovered that an uninitialised pointer could be freed in the decompression code. (CVE-2009-1721)

A buffer overflow was discovered in the compression code. (CVE-2009-1722)

Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:191-1 2009-12-08
Ubuntu USN-831-1 2009-09-14
SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:014 2009-09-01
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:191 2009-08-02
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:190 2009-08-02
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8132 2009-07-31
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8136 2009-07-31
Debian DSA-1842-1 2009-07-28

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