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High · 8.7 CVE-2025-59733 EUVD-2025-32183GHSA-hpfq-c235-5854

Heap-buffer-overflow write in FFmpeg EXR dwa_uncompress

Published Oct 6, 2025 · Updated Feb 26, 2026 · Assigned by Google

Description

When decoding an OpenEXR file that uses DWAA or DWAB compression, there's an implicit assumption that all image channels have the same pixel type (and size), and that if there are four channels, the first four are "B", "G", "R" and "A". The channel parsing code can be found in decode_header. The buffer td->uncompressed_data is allocated in decode_block based on the xsize, ysize and computed current_channel_offset.

The function dwa_uncompress then assumes at [5] that if there are 4 channels, these are "B", "G", "R" and "A", and in the calculations at [6] and [7] that all channels are of the same type, which matches the type of the main color channels.

If we set the main color channels to a 4-byte type and add duplicate or unknown channels of the 2-byte EXR_HALF type, then the addition at [7] will increment the pointer by 4-bytes * xsize * nb_channels, which will exceed the allocated buffer.

We recommend upgrading to version 8.0 or beyond.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
FFmpeg FFmpeg 9a32b863074ed4140141e0d3613905c6f1fe61c5 – < 8.0, 7.1.1 – < 8.0 8.0

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 ffmpeg 7:7.1.2-1 —
Debian 13 ffmpeg 7:7.1.2-0+deb13u1 DSA-6007-1
Debian 12 ffmpeg 7:5.1.7-0+deb12u1 DSA-5985-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 ffmpeg 7:7.1.1-1ubuntu4.2 —
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS ffmpeg 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm7 —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS ffmpeg 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm11 —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS ffmpeg 7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm12 —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS ffmpeg 7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm12 —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS libav No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 ffmpeg 8.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 ffmpeg 8.0-r0 —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling ffmpeg-7 +1 No fix yet —

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