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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-62377 EUVD-2026-62191

libheif: Reachable assertion in HeifContext::get_track() aborts on a valid-but-empty HEIF sequence file (context.cc:2110)

Published Aug 18, 2026 · Updated Aug 19, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. In 1.23.0 and earlier, a crafted HEIF sequence accepted by heif_context_read_from_memory() can leave the context with no registered sequence tracks and crash when heif_context_get_track(ctx, 0) is called. HeifContext::get_track() in libheif/context.cc executes assert(has_sequence()) before its normal error handling, so assert-enabled builds abort instead of allowing the public wrapper in libheif/api/libheif/heif_sequences.cc to return null. In release builds, removing the assertion lets the track_id zero path dereference m_tracks.begin()->second on an empty map, which is undefined behavior and typically crashes. The issue is reachable through documented public APIs after parsing attacker-controlled bytes. This issue is fixed in version 1.23.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
strukturag libheif < 1.23.1 —

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 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS libheif 1.21.2-3ubuntu0.5 USN-8774-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 libheif 1.23.1-150700.3.18.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3597-1
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SLES for SAP 16.0 libheif 1.23.1-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23320-1
SLES 16.0 libheif 1.23.1-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23320-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed libheif 1.23.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11416-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 libheif 1.23.1-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21644-1

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