USN-7082-1: libheif vulnerability

Publication date

23 October 2024

Overview

libheif could be made to crash or read sensitive data if it opened a specially crafted file

Releases


Packages

  • libheif - an ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder

Details

Gerrard Tai discovered that libheif did not properly validate certain
images, leading to out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability. If a user
or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to
obtain sensitive information.

Gerrard Tai discovered that libheif did not properly validate certain
images, leading to out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability. If a user
or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to
obtain sensitive information.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
24.04 noble libheif1 –  1.17.6-1ubuntu4.1

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