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Description

OpenEXR provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, an image storage format for the motion picture industry. From version 3.4.0 to before version 3.4.7, an attacker providing a crafted .exr file with HTJ2K compression and a channel width of 32768 can write controlled data beyond the output heap buffer in any application that decodes EXR images. The write primitive is 2 bytes per overflow iteration or 4 bytes (by another path), repeating for each additional pixel past the overflow point. In this context, a heap write overflow can lead to remote code execution on systems. This issue has been patched in version 3.4.7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
AcademySoftwareFoundation openexr >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.7 —

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 openexr 3.4.14-0.1 —
Debian 12 openexr No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 openexr No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed openexr 3.4.9-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10505-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling openexr +7 3.4.9-r0 —

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