jxl-oxide: Out-of-bounds writes due to integer overflow in jxl-grid on 32-bit platforms
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.
Summary
jxl-oxide is a pure Rust implementation of a JPEG XL decoder. Prior to jxl-grid 0.6.2, decoding a crafted JPEG XL image on a 32-bit platform can overflow length calculations in AlignedGrid::with_alloc_tracker and related grid and subgrid arithmetic. A 65536 x 65536 frame can pass the frame-area limit while overflowing the usize element count, causing modular, VarDCT, or filter rendering paths to allocate a backing buffer smaller than the logical grid. A tiny bitstream-controlled cropped frame combined with a huge canvas or requested region can also reach the vulnerable composition path in crates/jxl-render/src/blend.rs through ordinary render_frame(). Later mutable subgrid and raw-pointer operations can then perform attacker-controlled out-of-bounds writes, causing memory corruption, denial of service, or arbitrary code execution. This issue is fixed in jxl-grid version 0.6.2.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA jxl-oxide (tirr-c) Fixed in 0.12.6
- Fix · CNA jxl-grid (tirr-c) Fixed in 0.6.2
- Fix · GHSA-5pmv-rx8r-wmv5 jxl-grid (crates.io) Fixed in 0.6.2 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-52834
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5pmv-rx8r-wmv5
References
Other 5
- https://github.com/tirr-c/jxl-oxide/security/advisories/GHSA-5pmv-rx8r-wmv5
- https://github.com/tirr-c/jxl-oxide/commit/3986dadd3926a95656a642e74a0702d52f5c92e2
- https://github.com/tirr-c/jxl-oxide/releases/tag/0.12.6
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0151.html
- https://github.com/tirr-c/jxl-oxide
Sources
- CVE-2026-52834 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-52834 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-5pmv-rx8r-wmv5 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-52834 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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