Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-55373
| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-55373 | 20 Jun 202602:01 | – | circl | |
| CVE-2026-55373 | 25 Aug 202600:39 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2026-55373 OpenEXR: OpenEXRUtil SampleCountChannel endEdit() can loop forever on UINT_MAX sample counts | 25 Aug 202600:39 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2026-55373 | 25 Aug 202600:39 | – | debiancve | |
| EUVD-2026-65185 | 25 Aug 202600:39 | – | euvd | |
| CVE-2026-55373 | 25 Aug 202601:16 | – | nvd | |
| openSUSE 16: libIex-3_2-31 / libIex-3_2-31-x86-64-v3 / libIlmThread-3_2-31 / etc (openSUSE-SU-2026:21336-1) | 16 Jul 202600:00 | – | nessus | |
| SUSE SLES16: libIex-3_2-31 / libIex-3_2-31-x86-64-v3 / libIlmThread-3_2-31 / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:22653-1) | 17 Jul 202600:00 | – | nessus | |
| SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : openexr (SUSE-SU-2026:3169-1) | 23 Jul 202600:00 | – | nessus | |
| libIex-3_4-33-3.4.13-1.1 on GA media (moderate) | 10 Jul 202600:00 | – | opensuse |
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- OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR image format, widely used in the
motion picture industry. Versions prior to 3.2.10, 3.3.12, and 3.4.13 contain an infinite-loop
vulnerability in SampleCountChannel. The helper roundListSizeUp() rounds a sample-list size up to the next
power of two using repeated unsigned left shifts, which terminates for normal values but fails for
UINT_MAX: the sequence reaches 0x80000000, and the next left shift wraps the 32-bit value to 0. Because 0
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OpenEXRUtil APIs, either by editing the sample-count buffer through SampleCountChannel::Edit (whose
destructor calls endEdit()) or by calling SampleCountChannel::set(x, y, UINT_MAX) on a valid pixel. This
issue has been fixed in versions 3.2.10, 3.3.12, and 3.4.13. (CVE-2026-55373)
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audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
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