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CVE-2022-41838

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-12-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-122

Description

A code execution vulnerability exists in the DDS scanline parsing functionality of OpenImageIO Project OpenImageIO v2.4.4.2. A specially-crafted .dds can lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• OpenImageIO Project OpenImageIO: 2.4.4.2

References

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-33
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1634
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5384
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-33
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1634
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5384

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