USN-6847-1: libheif vulnerabilities

25 June 2024

libheif could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

  • libheif - ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 HEIF file format decoder - development file

Details

It was discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image data.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to crash the program, resulting
in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
(CVE-2019-11471)

Reza Mirzazade Farkhani discovered that libheif incorrectly handled
certain image data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to crash the
program, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-23109)

Eugene Lim discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image data.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to crash the program, resulting
in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu
20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-0996)

Min Jang discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image data.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to crash the program, resulting
in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-29659)

Yuchuan Meng discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image data.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to crash the program, resulting
in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10.
(CVE-2023-49460, CVE-2023-49462, CVE-2023-49463, CVE-2023-49464)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 23.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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