CVE-2023-29659

Published: 5 May 2023

A Segmentation fault caused by a floating point exception exists in libheif 1.15.1 using crafted heif images via the heif::Fraction::round() function in box.cc, which causes a denial of service.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
libheif Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	focal	Released (1.6.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro
	jammy	Released (1.12.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro
	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	lunar	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	mantic	Not vulnerable (1.16.2-2ubuntu1)
	noble	Not vulnerable (1.17.6-1ubuntu4)
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Released (1.16.2-1)
	xenial	Ignored (end of standard support)
	Patches: upstream: https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/commit/e05e15b57a38ec411cb9acb38512a1c36ff62991

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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