CVE-2026-49271

libheif: Wrapped icef compressed-unit range check causes out-of-bounds read in uncompressed HEIF decoder

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Jun 19, 2026
Updated
Jun 22, 2026
Reserved
May 28, 2026

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Description

libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. Prior to version 1.22.1, the uncompressed HEIF decoder validates explicit icef compressed-unit offsets using unit_offset + unit_size. Because the addition can wrap, a crafted HEIF file can pass the range check and then construct a vector from iterators outside the compressed item buffer, producing an out-of-bounds heap read and crash. Version 1.22.1 patches the issue.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
libheifstrukturag
  • < 1.22.1Affected

References

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