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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2026-44663 EUVD-2026-37944

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

Published Jun 18, 2026 · Updated Jun 22, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
AcademySoftwareFoundation openexr >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.11 —

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 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 openexr No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 openexr No fix yet —
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Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS openexr No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS openexr No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS openexr No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS openexr No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS openexr No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS openexr No fix yet —
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openSUSE Tumbleweed openexr 3.4.12-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10985-1
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Alpine v3.24 openexr 3.4.13-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 openexr 3.4.13-r0 —

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