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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-45696

🗓️ 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
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Unpatched OpenEXR 3.4.0–3.4.11 allows heap overflow in decoding; fixed in 3.4.12.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
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patched.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied
patch available.

  - OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR image format, widely used in the
    motion picture industry. In versions 3.4.0 through 3.4.11, the HTJ2K (High-Throughput JPEG 2000) decoder,
    ht_undo_impl() in OpenEXRCore is vulnerable to a heap-buffer-overflow READ. The ht_undo_imp function
    copies decoded pixels out of a per-line OpenJPH buffer using the EXR channel's declared width as the
    iteration count. The codestream embedded in the EXR chunk can declare different (smaller) tile/line
    dimensions than the EXR header advertises, but ht_undo_impl() does not validate this  it pulls width
    32-bit samples from cur_line->i32[] without checking the OpenJPH line buffer's actual length. A crafted
    EXR file produces a 4-byte heap-buffer-overflow READ immediately after a buffer allocated by
    ojph::local::codestream::finalize_alloc(). The bug is reachable through the standard scanline-decode entry
    point used by every consumer of exr_decoding_run/Imf::checkOpenEXRFile, including thumbnailers, asset
    pipelines, and the exrcheck utility  i.e. any application that opens untrusted EXR files. The result is a
    deterministic crash (DoS) and potential adjacent-heap leak. This issue has been fixed in version 3.4.12.
    (CVE-2026-45696)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2026-45696");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_unpatched", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2026/05/25");
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}

if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

var distro_constraints_array = {
  "Debian Linux-14": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "14",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "libopenexr-3-4-33"},
          {"reference": "libopenexr-dev"},
          {"reference": "libopenexr-doc"},
          {"reference": "openexr"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-10": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "10",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "OpenEXR"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-9": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "9",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "OpenEXR"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "CentOS Linux-7": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "7",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "OpenEXR"},
          {"reference": "OpenEXR-devel"},
          {"reference": "OpenEXR-libs"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "CentOS Linux-8": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "8",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "OpenEXR"},
          {"reference": "OpenEXR-devel"},
          {"reference": "OpenEXR-libs"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-7": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "7",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "OpenEXR"},
          {"reference": "OpenEXR-devel"},
          {"reference": "OpenEXR-libs"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-8": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "8",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "OpenEXR"},
          {"reference": "OpenEXR-devel"},
          {"reference": "OpenEXR-libs"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
};

var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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21 Jun 2026 00:00Current
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Vulners AI Score6
CVSS 48.3
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