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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2026-84451 json

libheif: Incomplete fix for CVE-2026-62292 leaves libheif vulnerable to an out-of-bounds read

published 2026-09-18 51 d ago modified 2026-09-24 45 d ago also EUVD-2026-83024

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 24%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. From 1.19.0 until 1.23.3, the no-icef full-item branch of unc_decoder::get_compressed_image_data_uncompressed() in libheif/codecs/uncompressed/unc_decoder.cc retains an addition-based range check that can wrap when a crafted uncompressed tile grid produces a large range_start_offset and range_size. The overflow makes the bounds comparison pass and allows heif_image_handle_decode_image_tile() to call memcpy() with an invalid source pointer and a very large length when decoding a valid high-index advertised tile. This incomplete remediation of CVE-2026-62292 can reliably crash tile-processing applications, while whole-image decoding is not claimed to reach the demonstrated path. This issue is fixed in version 1.23.3.

Patch / fix

  • libheif Debian 13 1.23.4-1~deb13u1
  • libheif Debian 14 1.23.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-84451

  • libheif SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7 1.23.4-150700.3.21.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:4276-1

  • libheif openSUSE Leap 16.0 1.23.4-160000.1.1
  • libheif openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.23.4-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21889-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11719-1

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-2026-84451 updated cvss 6.5

libheif: libheif: Denial of Service due to out-of-bounds read in image tile 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
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
45 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • strukturag libheif

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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