CVE-2026-41071 (GCVE-0-2026-41071)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-22 20:59
Modified
2026-05-27 13:25
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
Summary
libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. In versions 1.21.2 and prior, a crafted HEIF sequence file where the saiz box declares more samples than actually exist in the track's chunk table causes a heap-buffer-overflow (out-of-bounds read) in the SampleAuxInfoReader constructor. The SampleAuxInfoReader constructor iterates over saiz->get_num_samples() samples but doesn't validate that this count is consistent with the number of chunks in the chunks vector. When saiz declares more samples than the chunks cover, the loop increments current_chunk past chunks.size(), causing an out-of-bounds read on the chunks vector. The vulnerability is triggered during file parsing (heif_context_read_from_file) without any additional user interaction. Any application using libheif to open untrusted HEIF files is affected. This issue has been fixed in version 1.22.0.
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| strukturag | libheif |
Version: < 1.22.0 |
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