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CVE-2022-41981

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-12-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-121

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the TGA file format parser of OpenImageIO v2.3.19.0. A specially-crafted targa file can lead to out of bounds read and write on the process stack, which can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• OpenImageIO Project OpenImageIO: 2.3.19.0

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1628
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1628

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