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Echo: libheif: security update to 1.19.8-1

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 460897

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. From 1.19.0 until 1.23.0, a crafted HEIF
 sequence accepted by heif_context_read_from_memory() with the msf1 sequence brand can cause unbounded heap
 allocation. In libheif/sequences/seq_boxes.cc, Box_stsz::parse() applies max_sequence_frames only to
 variable-size samples, so fixed-size mode accepts an attacker-controlled sample_count without a bound. In
 libheif/sequences/track.cc, Track::load() also adds current_sample_idx and samples_per_chunk in 32-bit
 arithmetic, allowing the consistency check to be bypassed by wraparound. The resulting values reach the
 Chunk::Chunk() allocation path, which can consume gigabytes of memory and crash or stall the process
 through memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 1.23.0. (CVE-2026-50142)

Solution

Update the libheif library and its related packages to version 1.19.8-1 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2026-50142

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 460897

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.71

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-50142

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-50142

IAVB: 2026-B-0158-S