Bug 2539266

Summary: CVE-2026-84448 libheif: libheif: Information disclosure and denial of service due to heap out-of-bounds read [fedora-43]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vladimir Vasilev <vvasilev>
Component: libheifAssignee: Michel Lind <michel>
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Version: 43CC: dominik, multimedia-sig, ngompa13
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Description Vladimir Vasilev 2026-09-23 09:08:49 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. Prior to 1.23.2, the public heif_region_item_add_region_inline_mask_data() function in libheif/api/libheif/heif_regions.cc accepts mask_data_len without verifying that it equals the byte count required by width and height. A later heif_region_get_mask_image() call derives the read length from the region geometry, so an undersized stored buffer causes heif_region_get_inline_mask_image() to read beyond the heap allocation and copy adjacent bytes into the returned monochrome mask image. This can disclose heap data or crash an application that constructs region metadata through the writer API, while the file-parsing path is not affected because it validates the canonical mask size. This issue is fixed in version 1.23.2.

Comment 1 Michel Lind 2026-09-24 11:00:48 UTC
This bug is already fixed in a published Bodhi update.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-09-24 11:01:21 UTC
FEDORA-2026-022ff83e3e (libheif-1.23.5-3.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-022ff83e3e

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-09-26 01:31:11 UTC
FEDORA-2026-022ff83e3e (libheif-1.23.5-3.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.