The vulnerability of the Scanline API interface in the OpenEXR library allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Scanline API interface of the OpenEXR library is related to an uncontrolled resource consumption. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a perpetrator to cause a service failure by creating specially crafted EXR files...

AZL-44244 CVE-2021-3479 affecting package OpenEXR 2.3.0-6

There's a flaw in OpenEXR's Scanline API functionality in versions before 3.0.0-beta. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could trigger excessive consumption of memory, resulting in an impact to system availability...