Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
Medium · 5.1 CVE-2026-41071 EUVD-2026-31501

libheif: Heap buffer over-read in SampleAuxInfoReader via crafted HEIF sequence file with mismatched saiz sample count

Published May 22, 2026 · Updated May 27, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
strukturag libheif < 1.22.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 libheif 1.23.1-1 —
Debian 12 libheif No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS libheif 1.21.2-3ubuntu0.1 —
Ubuntu 25.10 libheif 1.20.2-1ubuntu0.4 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 libheif 1.23.0-150700.3.15.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2622-1
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 libheif 1.23.0-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22153-1
SLES 16.0 libheif 1.23.0-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22153-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed libheif 1.22.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10878-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 libheif 1.23.0-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:20974-1

Advisories 4

References