libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. From 1.19.0 until 1.23.0, a crafted HEIF sequence accepted by heif_context_read_from_memory() with the msf1 sequence brand can cause unbounded heap allocation. In libheif/sequences/seq_boxes.cc, Box_stsz::parse() applies max_sequence_frames only to variable-size samples, so fixed-size mode accepts an attacker-controlled sample_count without a bound. In libheif/sequences/track.cc, Track::load() also adds current_sample_idx and samples_per_chunk in 32-bit arithmetic, allowing the consistency check to be bypassed by wraparound. The resulting values reach the Chunk::Chunk() allocation path, which can consume gigabytes of memory and crash or stall the process through memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 1.23.0.
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USN-8526-1 | libheif vulnerabilities |
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Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0000
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| Description | libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. From 1.19.0 until 1.23.0, a crafted HEIF sequence accepted by heif_context_read_from_memory() with the msf1 sequence brand can cause unbounded heap allocation. In libheif/sequences/seq_boxes.cc, Box_stsz::parse() applies max_sequence_frames only to variable-size samples, so fixed-size mode accepts an attacker-controlled sample_count without a bound. In libheif/sequences/track.cc, Track::load() also adds current_sample_idx and samples_per_chunk in 32-bit arithmetic, allowing the consistency check to be bypassed by wraparound. The resulting values reach the Chunk::Chunk() allocation path, which can consume gigabytes of memory and crash or stall the process through memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 1.23.0. | |
| Title | libheif: unbounded heap allocation in HEIF sequence parser (stsz fixed-size mode missing bound check) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-190 CWE-770 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-18T21:18:03.652Z
Reserved: 2026-06-03T18:49:32.275Z
Link: CVE-2026-50142
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-18T22:16:52.633
Modified: 2026-08-18T22:16:52.633
Link: CVE-2026-50142
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