CVE-2026-44663
highpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.002 · 11 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.1–7.1
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references (6)
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- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/releases/tag/v3.4.12cnnvd
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/security/advisories/GHSA-777r-f9x8-7r84cnnvd
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/releases/tag/v3.4.12enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/security/advisories/GHSA-777r-f9x8-7r84enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/releases/tag/v3.4.12Release Notesnvd
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/security/advisories/GHSA-777r-f9x8-7r84ExploitMitigationPatchVendor Advisorynvd
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