Bug 2253575 (CVE-2023-49460)

Summary: CVE-2023-49460 libheif: segmentation violation in decode_uncompressed_image()
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A segmentation violation flaw was discovered in the libheif package. This may allow an attacker to access a memory location in a way that could cause an application to halt or crash, leading to a denial of service.
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Description Robb Gatica 2023-12-07 23:46:46 UTC
libheif v1.17.5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function UncompressedImageCodec::decode_uncompressed_image.

https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/issues/1046

Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2023-12-07 23:46:58 UTC
Created libheif tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2253576]