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RUSTSEC-2026-0151
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:
-
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().
Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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