CVE-2025-68431 (GCVE-0-2025-68431)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-29 19:09 – Updated: 2025-12-29 19:09
VLAI?
Title
libheif has Potential Heap Buffer Over-Read
Summary
libheif is an HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. Prior to version 1.21.0, a crafted HEIF that exercises the overlay image item path triggers a heap buffer over-read in `HeifPixelImage::overlay()`. The function computes a negative row length (likely from an unclipped overlay rectangle or invalid offsets), which then underflows when converted to `size_t` and is passed to `memcpy`, causing a very large read past the end of the source plane and a crash. Version 1.21.0 contains a patch. As a workaround, avoid decoding images using `iovl` overlay boxes.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| strukturag | libheif |
Affected:
< 1.21.0
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