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CVE-2018-18444 json

makeMultiView.cpp in exrmultiview in OpenEXR 2.3.0 has an out-of-bounds write, leading to an assertion failure or possibly unspecified othe…

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-10172

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

makeMultiView.cpp in exrmultiview in OpenEXR 2.3.0 has an out-of-bounds write, leading to an assertion failure or possibly unspecified other impact.

Patch / fix

  • openexr Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.5.3-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18444

  • openexr Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.2.0-10ubuntu2.1
  • openexr Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.1
  • openexr Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2.3.0-6ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18444

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • openexr SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP4, SLED 12 SP4 +2 more 2.1.0-6.10.1
  • openexr SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 2.2.1-3.3.11

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:1962-1SUSE-SU-2019:0954-1

  • openexr openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.1.1-2.2
  • openexr openSUSE Leap 15.0 2.2.1-lp150.2.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11117-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1265-1

  • openexr Alpine 3.10, Alpine 3.9 2.2.1-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-18444

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-18444 updated cvss 3.3

OpenEXR: Out-of-bounds write in makeMultiView.cpp

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 OpenEXR, OpenEXR-libs, mingw-OpenEXR, mingw32-OpenEXR, mingw64-OpenEXR
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 OpenEXR, OpenEXR-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 OpenEXR, OpenEXR-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 OpenEXR
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/openexr/openexr/issues/351 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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