CVE-2026-26981CWE-195

OpenEXR has heap-buffer-overflow via signed integer underflow in ImfContextInit.cpp

Medium · published February 24, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
46.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

OpenEXR provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, an image storage format for the motion picture industry. In versions 3.3.0 through 3.3.6 and 3.4.0 through 3.4.4, a heap-buffer-overflow (OOB read) occurs in the `istream_nonparallel_read` function in `ImfContextInit.cpp` when parsing a malformed EXR file through a memory-mapped `IStream`. A signed integer subtraction produces a negative value that is implicitly converted to `size_t`, resulting in a massive length being passed to `memcpy`. Versions 3.3.7 and 3.4.5 contain a patch.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00569 · 46.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-195 · Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error
Published
2026-02-24T02:26Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 FEB 02:26Z
    OpenEXR has heap-buffer-overflow via signed integer underflow in ImfContextInit.cpp
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