Bug 2537146 - CVE-2026-59981 usd: OpenEXR: Information disclosure and denial of service via out-of-bounds read [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-59981 usd: OpenEXR: Information disclosure and denial of service via...
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: usd
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
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Assignee: Luya Tshimbalanga
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Blocks: CVE-2026-59981
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Reported: 2026-09-19 11:34 UTC by Vladimir Vasilev
Modified: 2026-09-19 21:40 UTC (History)
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Description Vladimir Vasilev 2026-09-19 11:34:06 UTC
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OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR image file format, widely used in the motion picture industry. In versions through 3.2.10, 3.3.0 through 3.3.12, and 3.4.0 through 3.4.13, the OpenEXRUtil library returns an out-of-bounds pointer from the SampleCountChannel::row() API when a deep image has a non-zero dataWindow origin. The row() accessor is documented as 0-based and computes its address from an internal base that is offset for absolute pixel coordinates, so the two coordinate models conflict whenever dataWindow.min is non-zero. For a deep image whose data window has a large negative vertical origin, row(0) points far outside the allocated sample-count buffer. An application that opens an attacker-controlled deep EXR file and accesses sample counts through row() performs an out-of-bounds read, which can crash the process or, under a controlled heap layout, return adjacent heap memory as sample-count values. This issue is fixed in versions 3.2.11, 3.3.13, and 3.4.14.

Comment 1 Ben Beasley 2026-09-19 21:40:17 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. 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.


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