CVE-2026-44663

OpenEXR: Integer overflow in the HTJ2K decoder leads to heap-buffer-overflow

State
Published
Severity
6.1 Medium
Published
Jun 18, 2026
Updated
Jun 22, 2026
Reserved
May 7, 2026

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
openexrAcademySoftwareFoundation
  • >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.11Affected

References

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