CVE-2026-82591

Name	CVE-2026-82591
Description	A security vulnerability has been detected in Open Asset Import Library Assimp up to 6.0.2. The impacted element is the function MD5Importer::MakeDataUnique of the file code/AssetLib/MD5/MD5Loader.cpp. The manipulation of the argument iNewIndex leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. The identifier of the patch is bf9dabb617c46e5133dac65cca6bff177917afcb. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
assimp (PTS)	bullseye	5.0.1~ds0-2	vulnerable
	bookworm	5.2.5~ds0-1	vulnerable
	trixie	5.4.3+ds-2	vulnerable
	forky, sid	6.0.5+ds-1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
assimp	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

https://github.com/assimp/assimp/pull/6718
Fixed by: https://github.com/assimp/assimp/commit/bf9dabb617c46e5133dac65cca6bff177917afcb