CVE-2024-55195 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a Denial of Service in OpenImageIO by triggering an excessive memory allocation request.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-55195?
CVE-2024-55195 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 23 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An allocation-size-too-big bug in the component /imagebuf.cpp of OpenImageIO v3.1.0.0dev may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) when the program to requests to allocate too much space.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-55195?
How do I fix CVE-2024-55195?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-55195 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-55195 exists.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-55195, GHSA-mrx2-mvwr-fg6v, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-55195.