Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : libheif vulnerabilities (USN-8683-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8683-1 advisory. Feng Ning discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image transforms. A remote attacker could possibly use...

USN-8683-1: libheif vulnerabilities

Feng Ning discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image transforms. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. CVE-2026-62289 Ali Firas discovered that libheif...

[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: leptonica-1.87.0-4.fc44

The library supports many operations that are useful on Document images Natural images Fundamental image processing and image analysis operations Rasterop aka bitblt Affine transforms scaling, translation, rotation, shear on images of arbitrary pixel depth Projective and bi-linear transforms Bina...

Active Storage allowed transformation methods that were potentially unsafe

Active Storage attempts to prevent the use of potentially unsafe image transformation methods and parameters by default. The default allowed list contains three methods allowing for the circumvention of the safe defaults which enables potential command injection vulnerabilities in cases where...