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USN-7082-1: libheif vulnerability

23 October 2024

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

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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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.04

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

References