CVE-2026-26981: OpenEXR has heap-buffer-overflow via signed integer underflow in ImfContextInit.cpp
AcademySoftwareFoundation · openexr
Affected: AcademySoftwareFoundation openexr · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- AcademySoftwareFoundation · openexr>= 3.3.0, < 3.3.7; >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.5
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Published
- February 2026
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