CVE-2026-26981 OpenEXR has heap-buffer-overflow via signed integer underflow in ImfContextInit.cpp

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 istreamnonparallelread function in...

CVE-2026-26981

OpenEXR CVE-2026-26981 affects 3.3.0–3.3.6 and 3.4.0–3.4.4; a heap-buffer-overflow (OOB read) occurs in istream_nonparallel_read in ImfContextInit.cpp when parsing a malformed EXR via a memory-mapped IStream. A signed integer subtraction becomes a negative value that is implicitly cast to size_t,...