Memory corruption via mixed-type OpenEXR channel miscalculation
Published Oct 6, 2025 · Updated Oct 6, 2025
Out-of-bounds write in FFmpeg before 8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to corrupt memory via a crafted DWAA- or DWAB-compressed OpenEXR file. The dwa_uncompress function advances an output pointer using the main color channels' four-byte type while duplicate or unknown half-size channels received only two-byte buffer allocations. A user or application must decode the crafted file, after which the write exceeds td->uncompressed_data and corrupts decoder-process memory.
Summary
What happened
Out-of-bounds write in FFmpeg before 8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to corrupt memory via a crafted DWAA- or DWAB-compressed OpenEXR file. The dwa_uncompress function advances an output pointer using the main color channels' four-byte type while duplicate or unknown half-size channels received only two-byte buffer allocations. A user or application must decode the crafted file, after which the write exceeds td->uncompressed_data and corrupts decoder-process memory.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-59733
- Published
- Oct 6, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 6, 2025
- Vendor
- FFmpeg
- Product
- FFmpeg
- Classifications
- CWE-787, T1203
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 6, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 6, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=7.1.1 <8.0
- Affected versionversion=9a32b863074ed4140141e0d3613905c6f1fe61c5 <8.0
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