Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : libheif vulnerabilities (USN-8846-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8846-1 advisory. Yuqi Qiu and Xiang Li discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain compressed metadata. A remote...

USN-8846-1 libheif vulnerabilities

Yuqi Qiu and Xiang Li discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain compressed metadata. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. CVE-2026-84384 Yuqi Qiu and Xiang Li discovered that libheif...

USN-8846-1: libheif vulnerabilities

Yuqi Qiu and Xiang Li discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain compressed metadata. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. CVE-2026-84384 Yuqi Qiu and Xiang Li discovered that libheif...

CVE-2026-8814

Versions of the package exifreader before 4.39.0 are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data Data Amplification due to decompressing PNG zTXt metadata without enforcing a built-in maximum decompressed output size. When asynchronous parsing is enabled, a crafted PNG file containi...