Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libheif1 package, versions <1.23.0-150700.3.15.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.44% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-LIBHEIF1-17528154
  • published26 Jun 2026
  • disclosed24 Jun 2026

Introduced: 24 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-41071  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 libheif1 to version 1.23.0-150700.3.15.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libheif1 package and not the libheif1 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. In versions 1.21.2 and prior, a crafted HEIF sequence file where the saiz box declares more samples than actually exist in the track's chunk table causes a heap-buffer-overflow (out-of-bounds read) in the SampleAuxInfoReader constructor. The SampleAuxInfoReader constructor iterates over saiz->get_num_samples() samples but doesn't validate that this count is consistent with the number of chunks in the chunks vector. When saiz declares more samples than the chunks cover, the loop increments current_chunk past chunks.size(), causing an out-of-bounds read on the chunks vector. The vulnerability is triggered during file parsing (heif_context_read_from_file) without any additional user interaction. Any application using libheif to open untrusted HEIF files is affected. This issue has been fixed in version 1.22.0.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1