Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting libheif package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBHEIF-16770124
  • published20 May 2026
  • disclosed19 May 2026
  • creditElhananHaenel

Introduced: 19 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-32814  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Resource in the decoding process of grid-based HEIF or AVIF images when a corrupted tile fails to decode and the library returns a success status, resulting in uninitialized heap memory being exposed as pixel data. An attacker can access sensitive information from heap memory by submitting a crafted image file that triggers the leak during decoding. This is only exploitable if the default setting strict_decoding=false is used.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1