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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-55373

OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR image format, widely used in the motion picture industry. Versions prior to 3.2....

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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 remains less than UINT_MAX, the loop never progresses and never exits. The bug is reachable through public 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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS openexr
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Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS openexr
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Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS openexr
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Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS openexr
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Ubuntu:Pro:24.04:LTS openexr
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Ubuntu:26.10 openexr
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Ubuntu:Pro:26.04:LTS openexr
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