CVE-2026-50142

A flaw was found in libheif, a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. A remote attacker can provide a specially crafted HEIF sequence that triggers an unbounded heap allocation. This occurs because the HEIF sequence parser's fixed-size mode is missing a bound check, and an integer...

CVE-2026-50142 libheif: unbounded heap allocation in HEIF sequence parser (stsz fixed-size mode missing bound check)

libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. From 1.19.0 until 1.23.0, a crafted HEIF sequence accepted by heifcontextreadfrommemory with the msf1 sequence brand can cause unbounded heap allocation. In libheif/sequences/seqboxes.cc, Boxstsz::parse applies maxsequenceframes only to...

USN-8526-1: libheif vulnerabilities

Xianrui Dong discovered that libheif had an out-of-bounds read in its HEIF sequence track parser. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. CVE-2026-47254 Junyi Liu discovered that libheif had...