ubuntu-cve-2025-43966
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2025-04-21 00:15
Modified
2025-07-16 05:26
Summary
Details

libheif before 1.19.6 has a NULL pointer dereference in ImageItem_iden in image-items/iden.cc.

Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
2.9 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "heif-gdk-pixbuf",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "heif-gdk-pixbuf-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "heif-thumbnailer",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "heif-thumbnailer-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-examples",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-examples-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-aomdec",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-aomdec-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-aomenc",
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          },
          {
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-dav1d",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-dav1d-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-ffmpegdec",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-ffmpegdec-dbgsym",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-j2kdec",
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          },
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            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-j2kdec-dbgsym",
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          },
          {
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          },
          {
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-jpegdec",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-jpegdec-dbgsym",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-jpegenc",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-jpegenc-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-kvazaar",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-kvazaar-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-libde265",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-libde265-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-rav1e",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-rav1e-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-svtenc",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-svtenc-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-x265",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugin-x265-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif-plugins-all",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif1",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libheif1-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.19.7-1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:25.04",
        "name": "libheif",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libheif@1.19.7-1?arch=source\u0026distro=plucky"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.19.7-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.18.1-2",
        "1.19.3-1",
        "1.19.5-1",
        "1.19.5-1build1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "libheif before 1.19.6 has a NULL pointer dereference in ImageItem_iden in image-items/iden.cc.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-43966",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T05:26:27Z",
  "published": "2025-04-21T00:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-43966"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-43966"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/compare/v1.19.5...v1.19.6"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2025-43966"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T17:05:07Z"
}



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