Integer overflow in OpenEXR - CVE-2026-34378

 

Integer overflow in OpenEXR - CVE-2026-34378

Published: April 8, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU125333
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-34378
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in generic_unpack() when parsing crafted EXR files with a negative dataWindow.min.x value. A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted EXR file to cause a denial of service.

User interaction is required to open or process the crafted EXR file.


Affected software

OpenEXR
Anolis OS
Fedora
OpenEXR
OpenEXR-devel
OpenEXR-libs
OpenEXR-doc
usd

How to mitigate CVE-2026-34378

Install security update from vendor's website.

OpenEXR - update to 3.4.9
OpenEXR - addressed in versions 3.4.4-5, 3.4.11-2
OpenEXR-devel - addressed in versions 3.4.4-5, 3.4.11-2
OpenEXR-libs - addressed in versions 3.4.4-5, 3.4.11-2
OpenEXR-doc - addressed in versions 3.4.4-5, 3.4.11-2
usd - addressed in versions 25.08-20.fc43, 26.03-3.fc44, 26.03-3.fc45

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