libheif vulnerabilities
Summary
Xianrui Dong discovered that libheif had an out-of-bounds read in its HEIF sequence track parser. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-47254) Junyi Liu discovered that libheif had a null pointer dereference in its image tiling interface. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-47709) Calvin Young and Enoch Chow discovered that libheif had an integer overflow in its inline mask size calculation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2026-47714) Ariel Koren discovered that libheif had an integer underflow in its grid image tile coordinate transform. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2026-48029) It was discovered that libheif had a missing bound check in its HEIF sequence parser, allowing unbounded heap allocation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-50142) Affected Ubuntu releases: 26.04, 25.10. CVEs: CVE-2026-47709, CVE-2026-50142, CVE-2026-48029, CVE-2026-47254, CVE-2026-47714.
- Ubuntu 26.04
- Ubuntu 25.10
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
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