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Fencer Vulns
high 8.7

CVE-2026-62292 json

libheif: Out-of-bounds read in uncompressed unci tile range slicing

published 2026-08-18 2 mo ago modified 2026-10-22 17 d ago also EUVD-2026-62189

cvss
8.7
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. From 1.19.0 until 1.23.1, a crafted uncompressed HEIF image using generic zlib unci full-item compression can crash an application that decodes an advertised tile with heif_image_handle_decode_image_tile(). In libheif/codecs/uncompressed/unc_decoder.cc, unc_decoder::fetch_tile_data() computes a large tile offset and unc_decoder::get_compressed_image_data_uncompressed() validates it with range_start_offset plus range_size. For the last advertised tile (4095, 4095), the addition can wrap to zero, bypass the bounds check, and pass an invalid source pointer and a one-terabyte length to memcpy. The observed result is an out-of-bounds read and process crash; opening the file alone does not trigger the issue because tile decoding is required. This issue is fixed in version 1.23.1.

Patch / fix

  • struktur libheif 1.23.1
  • libheif Debian 13 1.19.8-1+deb13u1
  • libheif Debian 14 1.23.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-62292

  • libheif Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 1.21.2-3ubuntu0.4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-62292

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libheif SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 1.23.1-160000.1.1
  • libheif SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7 1.23.1-150700.3.18.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:23320-1SUSE-SU-2026:3597-1

  • libheif openSUSE Leap 16.0 1.23.1-160000.1.1
  • libheif openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.23.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21644-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11416-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-62292 updated cvss 7.5

libheif: libheif: Denial of service via crafted HEIF image processing

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/security/advisories/GHSA-73p7-m7gg-w2jv referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • strukturag libheif

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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