OpenEXR: Heap out-of-bounds write in exrmultiview with subsampled channel union (AcademySoftwareFoundation openexr)

CVE-2026-68515
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.19 % · percentile 9 ()
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. In versions before 3.2.11, 3.3.0 through 3.3.12, and 3.4.0 through 3.4.13, exrmultiview can write past a heap allocation when it combines two attacker-supplied, individually valid scanline EXR files whose union dataWindow is not aligned to one view's channel subsampling. The utility allocates sampled channel storage using a truncated union_width / xSampling, then reads the sampled input through a Slice based on the misaligned union window, producing a heap out-of-bounds write. The trigger is normal public-tool processing, such as exrmultiview left A.exr right B.exr out.exr with crafted but valid inputs, so this is not solely an API or caller-precondition issue. This issue is fixed in versions 3.2.11, 3.3.13, and 3.4.14.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
AcademySoftwareFoundation · openexraffected >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.13 ; affected >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.14 ; affected < 3.2.11

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD