CVE-2026-84448

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/security/advisories/GHSA-p58j-h3vm-3fp5

https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/releases/tag/v1.23.2

https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/commit/646d85fbf5bd18fc3cdc516e915e59072de2d510

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-18

Updated: 2026-09-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00123