NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libheif package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LIBHEIF-17782230
  • published2 Jul 2026
  • disclosed21 Jul 2026

Introduced: 2 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-47709  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:12 libheif.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libheif package and not the libheif package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. Versions prior to 1.22.0 crashes in the public C API heif_image_handle_get_image_tiling() when a malformed uncompressed HEIF image item has an associated uncC property but no associated ispe property. In debug builds this trips the ispe && uncC assertion in ImageItem_uncompressed::get_heif_image_tiling(). In a release/NDEBUG ASan build, the same file causes a null pointer read at address 0xa8. Version 1.22.0 fixes the issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1