AVIF has landed

Back in ancient July I released a video that dug into how lossy and lossless image compression works and how to apply that knowledge to compress a set of different images for the web. Well, that's already out of date because AVIF has arrived. Brilliant. AVIF is a new image format derived from the...

Microsoft Windows av1decodermft_store AVIF File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Microsoft Windows. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of...

PT-2020-21913

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions avif affected versions not specified Description A crash issue was identified, classified as an UNKNOWN WRITE. The crash occurred in the functions avifDecoderDataFillImageGrid and avifDecoderNextImage, as observed in the avif decode fuzzer.cc...