OpenEXR: OpenEXRUtil SampleCountChannel row setter heap has an out-of-bounds write vulnerability (AcademySoftwareFoundation openexr)

CVE-2026-55059
MEDIUM 6.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.15 % Β· percentile 4 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Deferred

Description

OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR image format, widely used in the motion picture industry. Versions prior to 3.2.10, 3.3.12 and 3.4.13 contain a heap out-of-bounds write in Imf_4_0::SampleCountChannel::set(int r, unsigned int newNumSamples[]). The row-based sample-count setter computes the target Y coordinate with dataWindow.min.x instead of dataWindow.min.y. For a valid deep image data window where min.x != min.y, a valid row index can be translated into an invalid Y coordinate, causing writes before the allocated _numSamples buffer. The vulnerability is reachable through the public OpenEXRUtil DeepImage API and can lead to heap corruption and process crashes. This issue has been fixed in versions 3.2.10, 3.3.12 and 3.4.13.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HNVD Β· security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
AcademySoftwareFoundation Β· openexraffected < 3.2.10 ; affected >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.12 ; affected >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.13

Sources

SourceLicence
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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST β€” attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA β€” reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain β€” this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD