Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting libheif package, versions [,1.18.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.05% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBHEIF-10076604
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed5 Mar 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-25269  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libheif to version 1.18.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in the JpegEncoder::Encode() function, which can be exploited to cause a crash.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1