OpenEXR: Integer overflow in the HTJ2K decoder leads to heap-buffer-overflow (AcademySoftwareFoundation openexr)

CVE-2026-44663
MEDIUM 6.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.21 % · percentile 11 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR image format, widely used in the motion picture industry. In versions 3.4.0 through 3.4.11, an integer overflow in ht_undo_impl() in src/lib/OpenEXRCore/internal_ht.cpp leads to a heap-buffer overflow when decoding a crafted HTJ2K-compressed EXR file. decode->channels[i].width (int32_t) is multiplied by bytes_per_element in 32-bit signed arithmetic. With large widths (e.g., >= 536870912 for FLOAT data), this overflows, producing a corrupted offset that is later used for pointer arithmetic and can cause a heap out-of-bounds write. The same unchecked multiplication pattern appears in two other HTJ2K paths (bytes-per-line accumulation and pixel-line pointer advancement). As with related CVE-2026-34378 through CVE-2026-34589 fixes in other codecs, validating only after the multiplication is too late because the value may already be overflowed. This issue has been fixed in version 3.4.12.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound
  • CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
AcademySoftwareFoundation · openexraffected >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.11

Sources

SourceLicence
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ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
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