CVE-2026-62292
Received Received - Intake

Heap Overflow in libheif Image Decoder

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-62292, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-08-18

Last updated on: 2026-08-18

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. From 1.19.0 until 1.23.1, a crafted uncompressed HEIF image using generic zlib unci full-item compression can crash an application that decodes an advertised tile with heif_image_handle_decode_image_tile(). In libheif/codecs/uncompressed/unc_decoder.cc, unc_decoder::fetch_tile_data() computes a large tile offset and unc_decoder::get_compressed_image_data_uncompressed() validates it with range_start_offset plus range_size. For the last advertised tile (4095, 4095), the addition can wrap to zero, bypass the bounds check, and pass an invalid source pointer and a one-terabyte length to memcpy. The observed result is an out-of-bounds read and process crash; opening the file alone does not trigger the issue because tile decoding is required. This issue is fixed in version 1.23.1.

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Published
2026-08-18
Last Modified
2026-08-18
Generated
2026-08-19
EPSS Evaluated
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Affected Vendors & Products

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Vendor Product Version / Range
structural_heif libheif From 1.19.0 (inc) to 1.23.1 (inc)
structural_heif libheif 1.23.1

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CWE ID Description
CWE-125 The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

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