CVE-2026-62289

Description

A flaw was found in libheif, a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted HEIF or AVIF file containing a clean aperture box. This can lead to an integer underflow when processing image transformations, causing the application to crash or corrupt image tiling results. This issue primarily results in a Denial of Service (DoS) or potential data integrity issues.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.

Mitigation

To mitigate this issue, avoid processing untrusted HEIF or AVIF files with applications that use libheif. Additionally, consider sandboxing applications that handle HEIF/AVIF content from untrusted sources to limit the potential impact of exploitation.

Understanding the Weakness (CWE)

CWE-191

Availability

Technical Impact: DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart; DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU); DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory); DoS: Instability

This weakness will generally lead to undefined behavior and therefore crashes. In the case of overflows involving loop index variables, the likelihood of infinite loops is also high.

Integrity

Technical Impact: Modify Memory

If the value in question is important to data (as opposed to flow), simple data corruption has occurred. Also, if the wrap around results in other conditions such as buffer overflows, further memory corruption may occur.

Confidentiality,Availability,Access Control

Technical Impact: Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands; Bypass Protection Mechanism

This weakness can sometimes trigger buffer overflows which can be used to execute arbitrary code. This is usually outside the scope of a program's implicit security policy.

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