UBUNTU-CVE-2026-39886

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-39886
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-39886.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-39886
Upstream
Published
2026-04-21T02:16:00Z
Modified
2026-10-17T12:58:13Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

OpenEXR provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, an image storage format for the motion picture industry. Versions 3.4.0 through 3.4.9 have a signed integer overflow vulnerability in OpenEXR's HTJ2K (High-Throughput JPEG 2000) decompression path. The ht_undo_impl() function in src/lib/OpenEXRCore/internal_ht.cpp accumulates a bytes-per-line value (bpl) using a 32-bit signed integer with no overflow guard. A crafted EXR file with 16,385 FLOAT channels at the HTJ2K maximum width of 32,767 causes bpl to overflow INT_MAX, producing undefined behavior confirmed by UBSan. On an allocator-permissive host where the required ~64 GB allocation succeeds, the wrapped negative bpl value would subsequently be used as a per-scanline pointer advance, which would produce a heap out-of-bounds write. On a memory-constrained host, the allocation fails before ht_undo_impl() is entered. This is the second distinct integer overflow in ht_undo_impl(). CVE-2026-34545 addressed a different overflow in the same function — the int16_t p pixel-loop counter at line ~302 that overflows when iterating over channels whose width exceeds 32,767. The CVE-2026-34545 fix did not touch the int bpl accumulator at line 211, which is the subject of this advisory. The bpl accumulator was also not addressed by any of the 8 advisories in the 2026-04-05 v3.4.9 release batch. This finding is structurally identical to CVE-2026-34588 (PIZ wcount*nx overflow in internal_piz.c) and should be remediated with the same pattern. The CVE-2026-34588 fix did not touch internal_ht.cpp. Version 3.4.10 contains a remediation that addresses the vulnerability in internal_ht.cpp.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:26.10 / openexr

Package

Name
openexr
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/openexr?arch=source&distro=stonking

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.1.13-2build1
3.4.6+ds-4ubuntu3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "libopenexr-3-4-33",
            "binary_version":  "3.4.6+ds-4ubuntu3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "openexr",
            "binary_version":  "3.4.6+ds-4ubuntu3"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-39886.json"