Bug 2253562 (CVE-2023-49464)

Summary: CVE-2023-49464 libheif: UAF
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Nick Tait <ntait>
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A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the get_luma_bits_per_pixel_from_configuration_unci function in libheif. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a crash or other possible unspecified impacts. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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Description Nick Tait 2023-12-07 22:40:33 UTC
libheif v1.17.5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function UncompressedImageCodec::get_luma_bits_per_pixel_from_configuration_unci.

https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/issues/1044

Comment 1 Nick Tait 2023-12-07 22:40:47 UTC
Created libheif tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2253563]