RHSA-2020:4039 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenEXR security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · September 30, 2020

Updated · June 27, 2026

Topic

An update for OpenEXR is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

OpenEXR is a high dynamic-range (HDR) image file format developed by Industrial Light & Magic for use in computer imaging applications. This package contains libraries and sample applications for handling the format.

Security Fix(es):

  • OpenEXR: out-of-bounds read during Huffman uncompression (CVE-2020-11761)

  • OpenEXR: std::vector out-of-bounds read and write in ImfTileOffsets.cpp (CVE-2020-11763)

  • OpenEXR: out-of-bounds write in copyIntoFrameBuffer function in ImfMisc.cpp (CVE-2020-11764)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:4039 — Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenEXR security update | PulseLinux