Bug 2523538 - CVE-2026-55059 usd: OpenEXR: Heap out-of-bounds write leads to denial of service [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-55059 usd: OpenEXR: Heap out-of-bounds write leads to denial of serv...
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: usd
Version: rawhide
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Assignee: Luya Tshimbalanga
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Blocks: CVE-2026-55059
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Reported: 2026-08-25 15:24 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2026-08-26 08:25 UTC (History)
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Description Laura Pardo 2026-08-25 15:24:31 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

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.

Comment 1 Ben Beasley 2026-08-25 15:47:20 UTC
I’ve tried backporting some fixes from OpenEXR upstream in the past, but the CVE’s keep piling up, and downstream backporting of dozens of patches is not sustainable. Upstream really needs to rebase their vendored OpenEXR code on a current OpenEXR release. This can be tracked at https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD/issues/4186.

Comment 2 Ben Beasley 2026-08-26 08:25:56 UTC
The vendored OpenEXR has been updated upstream in https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD/commit/8ca068a2d06ef84a534776ac7b97973e00f6be7a, fixing dozens of CVE’s. This change isn’t a good candidate for backporting, but it should be present in the next upstream release, which will be ABI-incompatibile and therefore won’t be shipped in stable releases. Depending on when a release appears, it reach be for F46+ only, or it might also make it into F45 after the beta freeze.


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