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High · 7.1 CVE-2026-68513 EUVD-2026-65736

OpenEXR: Heap buffer overflow in PyOpenEXR from literal/prefixed RGB channel name collision

Published Aug 25, 2026 · Updated Aug 28, 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. Versions 3.3.0 through 3.3.12 and 3.4.0 through 3.4.13 contain a heap buffer overflow in PyOpenEXR triggered by a channel-name key collision between literal and prefixed RGB channels. When separate_channels=false, PyOpenEXR maps each physical channel name through channelNameToRGBA() and coalesces the results into a shared RGB array. A crafted flat scanline EXR that contains both a literal channel such as left and prefixed channels such as left.R, left.G, and left.B causes these names to collide, so the wrapper reuses an undersized two-dimensional NumPy array for the coalesced RGB slices and writes out of bounds when OpenEXR.File(path) decodes the pixels. This 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 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 openexr No fix yet —
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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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