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High · 7.1 CVE-2026-59187 EUVD-2026-65589

OpenEXR: exrmetrics deep pixelmode heap buffer overflow

Published Aug 25, 2026 · Updated Aug 25, 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. OpenEXR versions 3.3.0 through 3.3.12 and 3.4.0 through 3.4.13 are vulnerable to a heap out-of-bounds write when exrmetrics reads a crafted deep scanline EXR. This occurs with pixel conversion options such as --pixelmode float or --bench because DeepSlice requests FLOAT output while the backing sample buffers are allocated using the input HALF element size. The issue is fixed in versions 3.3.13 and 3.4.14.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
AcademySoftwareFoundation openexr >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.13, >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.14 —

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 —
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
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 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed openexr 3.4.14-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11612-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-OpenEXR 3.4.16-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12184-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 openexr 3.4.15-r0 —

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