Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 24, 2026· Updated Sep 9, 2026
CVE-2026-68516
CVE-2026-68516
Description
OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR image format, widely used in the motion picture industry. From version 3.4.0 through 3.4.13, a crafted HTJ2K-compressed EXR can crash OpenEXR during normal decode. An HTJ2K-compressed EXR whose JPEG 2000 SIZ fields place the first tile outside the visible image can reach invalid tile and codeblock geometry in the vendored OpenJPH AVX2 decoder, causing a stack out-of-bounds write and denial of service. OpenEXR's HTJ2K path validates the decoded codestream dimensions against the EXR chunk size, but it does not reject SIZ image-offset/tile-grid geometry where the first tile does not intersect the image. This issue is fixed in version 3.4.14.
Affected products
1- Range: 3.4.0 - 3.4.13
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3News mentions
1- OpenEXR: 22 Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Batch, Patched in 3.2.11/3.3.13/3.4.14Vypr Intelligence · Aug 25, 2026