GHSA-5PMV-RX8R-WMV5
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-02 20:45 – Updated: 2026-07-02 20:45Summary
On 32-bit platforms, decoding a crafted image may lead to out-of-bounds writes due to integer overflow in length calculation.
Details & PoC
The test listed below fail under miri with command cargo +nightly miri test --release -p jxl-grid
Or you can use Address Sanitizer, which ignores Rust-specific UB like aliasing but still flags out-of-bounds accesses:
RUSTFLAGS=-Zsanitizer=address cargo +nightly test -Zbuild-std -p jxl-grid --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
The following tests should be appended to crates/jxl-grid/src/test/subgrids.rs:
mod miri_ub {
use super::*;
// `AlignedGrid::with_alloc_tracker` computes `width * height` unchecked. In release, overflow
// can create a tiny backing buffer for huge logical dimensions.
#[test]
fn aligned_grid_dimension_product_overflows() {
let width = usize::MAX / 2 + 1;
let mut grid = AlignedGrid::<u8>::with_alloc_tracker(width, 2, None).unwrap();
let mut subgrid = grid.as_subgrid_mut();
*subgrid.get_mut(0, 1) = 1;
std::hint::black_box(grid);
}
}
This issue can be reachable through decoding a crafted image in two ways:
-
Huge actual frame A frame such as
65536 x 65536passes the current frame area limit (2^32 <= 2^40) but overflowsusizeelement count on 32-bit. Rendering then allocates too-smallAlignedGrids in modular/VarDCT/filter paths and later writes through mutable subgrids. -
Huge canvas plus tiny cropped frame This is the more practical “small payload, huge logical output” case. A bitstream-controlled frame crop can be tiny, but if the canvas/default requested region is huge, composition can allocate an output grid sized to the canvas/ROI at crates/jxl-render/src/blend.rs. That is bitstream frame cropping, not API crop. With a 32-bit target and a full requested image region whose area overflows, this can happen through ordinary
render_frame().
Impact
On 32-bit platforms this can cause out-of-bounds writes with attacker-controlled data when decoding a crafted JPEG XL image. This could allow arbitrary code execution.
{
"affected": [
{
"database_specific": {
"last_known_affected_version_range": "\u003c= 0.6.1"
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "crates.io",
"name": "jxl-grid"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "0.6.2"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-52834"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-122",
"CWE-131",
"CWE-190"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2026-07-02T20:45:59Z",
"nvd_published_at": null,
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "### Summary\n\nOn 32-bit platforms, decoding a crafted image may lead to out-of-bounds writes due to integer overflow in length calculation.\n\n### Details \u0026 PoC\n\nThe test listed below fail under miri with command `cargo +nightly miri test --release -p jxl-grid`\n\nOr you can use Address Sanitizer, which ignores Rust-specific UB like aliasing but still flags out-of-bounds accesses:\n\n`RUSTFLAGS=-Zsanitizer=address cargo +nightly test -Zbuild-std -p jxl-grid --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu`\n\nThe following tests should be appended to `crates/jxl-grid/src/test/subgrids.rs`:\n\n```rust\nmod miri_ub {\n use super::*;\n\n // `AlignedGrid::with_alloc_tracker` computes `width * height` unchecked. In release, overflow\n // can create a tiny backing buffer for huge logical dimensions.\n #[test]\n fn aligned_grid_dimension_product_overflows() {\n let width = usize::MAX / 2 + 1;\n let mut grid = AlignedGrid::\u003cu8\u003e::with_alloc_tracker(width, 2, None).unwrap();\n let mut subgrid = grid.as_subgrid_mut();\n *subgrid.get_mut(0, 1) = 1;\n std::hint::black_box(grid);\n }\n}\n```\n\nThis issue can be reachable through decoding a crafted image in two ways:\n\n1. **Huge actual frame**\n A frame such as `65536 x 65536` passes the current frame area limit (`2^32 \u003c= 2^40`) but overflows `usize` element count on 32-bit. Rendering then allocates too-small `AlignedGrid`s in modular/VarDCT/filter paths and later writes through mutable subgrids.\n\n2. **Huge canvas plus tiny cropped frame**\n This is the more practical \u201csmall payload, huge logical output\u201d case. A bitstream-controlled frame crop can be tiny, but if the canvas/default requested region is huge, composition can allocate an output grid sized to the canvas/ROI at crates/jxl-render/src/blend.rs. That is bitstream frame cropping, not API crop. With a 32-bit target and a full requested image region whose area overflows, this can happen through ordinary `render_frame()`.\n\n### Impact\n\nOn 32-bit platforms this can cause out-of-bounds writes with attacker-controlled data when decoding a crafted JPEG XL image. This could allow arbitrary code execution.",
"id": "GHSA-5pmv-rx8r-wmv5",
"modified": "2026-07-02T20:45:59Z",
"published": "2026-07-02T20:45:59Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/tirr-c/jxl-oxide/security/advisories/GHSA-5pmv-rx8r-wmv5"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/tirr-c/jxl-oxide"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0151.html"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
],
"summary": "jxl-grid on 32-bit platforms has an out-of-bounds writes due to integer overflow"
}
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