Bug 1190070 (CVE-2020-19499) - VUL-0: CVE-2020-19499: libheif: invalid memory read in heif:Box_iref:get_references()
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2020-19499: libheif: invalid memory read in heif:Box_iref:get_refe...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2020-19499
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Andreas Schneider
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/304917/
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Reported: 2021-09-01 16:02 UTC by Marcus Meissner
Modified: 2021-09-01 16:04 UTC (History)
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Description Marcus Meissner 2021-09-01 16:02:30 UTC 
An issue was discovered in heif::Box_iref::get_references in libheif 1.4.0, allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service or possibly other unspecified impact due to an invalid memory read.

Reference:
https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/issues/138
https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/commit/f7399b62d7fbc596f1b2871578c1d2053bedf1dd
Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2021-09-01 16:04:06 UTC 
fixed in 1.5.0 and later

we have newer versions already