Bug 2267896 (CVE-2024-25269)

Summary: CVE-2024-25269 libheif: memory leak
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Description ybuenos 2024-03-05 12:56:56 UTC
libheif <= 1.17.6 contains a memory leak in the function JpegEncoder::Encode. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack.

https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/issues/1073

Comment 1 ybuenos 2024-03-05 12:57:15 UTC
Created libheif tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2267897]