CVE-2018-18443

Publication date 17 October 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

OpenEXR 2.3.0 has a memory leak in ThreadPool in IlmBase/IlmThread/IlmThreadPool.cpp, as demonstrated by exrmultiview.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
openexr	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
openexr	Upstream: adbc190

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 4.3 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.3 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18443

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