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Medium · 4.0 CVE-2026-84448 EUVD-2026-83015

libheif: Heap out-of-bounds read in libheif inline-mask region API (heif_region_item_add_region_inline_mask_data / heif_region_get_mask_image)

Published Sep 18, 2026 · Updated Sep 24, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. Prior to 1.23.2, the public heif_region_item_add_region_inline_mask_data() function in libheif/api/libheif/heif_regions.cc accepts mask_data_len without verifying that it equals the byte count required by width and height. A later heif_region_get_mask_image() call derives the read length from the region geometry, so an undersized stored buffer causes heif_region_get_inline_mask_image() to read beyond the heap allocation and copy adjacent bytes into the returned monochrome mask image. This can disclose heap data or crash an application that constructs region metadata through the writer API, while the file-parsing path is not affected because it validates the canonical mask size. This issue is fixed in version 1.23.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
strukturag libheif < 1.23.2 —

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 1.23.2-1 —
Debian 13 libheif 1.23.4-1~deb13u1 —
Debian 12 libheif No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS libheif 1.21.2-3ubuntu0.6 USN-8846-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS libheif 1.17.6-1ubuntu4.9 USN-8846-1
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS libheif 1.12.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm5 USN-8846-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS libheif 1.6.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm5 USN-8846-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS libheif 1.1.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm5 USN-8846-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 libheif 1.23.4-150700.3.21.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4276-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed libheif 1.23.4-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11719-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 libheif 1.23.4-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21889-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 libheif +3 1.23.6-1.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3314

Advisories 5

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