OpenEXR vulnerabilities
Summary
Quang Luong discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled sample count accumulation when processing deep scan line image files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenEXR to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-27622) It was discovered that OpenEXR had an integer overflow in the PXR24 decoder. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenEXR to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-34380) Quang Luong discovered that OpenEXR had a signed integer overflow in the PIZ decoder. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenEXR to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-34588) Affected Ubuntu releases: 26.04, 24.04, 22.04, 20.04, 18.04, 16.04. CVEs: CVE-2026-27622, CVE-2026-34380, CVE-2026-34588.
- Ubuntu 26.04
- Ubuntu 24.04
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Ubuntu 20.04
- Ubuntu 18.04
- Ubuntu 16.04
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
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