Vulnerability RUSTSEC-2026-0151

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4 months ago
May 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
Out-of-bounds writes due to integer overflow in jxl-grid on 32-bit platforms
0.1.0 - 0.6.1
0.1.0 - 0.6.1

Summary

Out-of-bounds writes due to integer overflow in jxl-grid on 32-bit platforms

Details

On 32-bit platforms, decoding a crafted image may lead to out-of-bounds writes due to integer overflow in length calculation. This could allow arbitrary code execution.

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:

  1. Huge actual frame A frame such as 65536 x 65536 passes the current frame area limit (2^32 <= 2^40) but overflows usize element count on 32-bit. Rendering then allocates too-small AlignedGrids in modular/VarDCT/filter paths and later writes through mutable subgrids.

  2. 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().

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
4 months ago
May 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
Fixed (0.6.2)
4 months ago
May 29, 2026 at 03:50 PM UTC
Last Modified
1 hour ago
October 12, 2026 at 06:00 PM UTC