Unrated severityOSV Advisory· Published Dec 29, 2025· Updated Dec 30, 2025
libheif has Potential Heap Buffer Over-Read
CVE-2025-68431
Description
libheif is an HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. Prior to version 1.21.0, a crafted HEIF that exercises the overlay image item path triggers a heap buffer over-read in HeifPixelImage::overlay(). The function computes a negative row length (likely from an unclipped overlay rectangle or invalid offsets), which then underflows when converted to size_t and is passed to memcpy, causing a very large read past the end of the source plane and a crash. Version 1.21.0 contains a patch. As a workaround, avoid decoding images using iovl overlay boxes.
Affected products
1- Range: v1.1.0, v1.10.0, v1.11.0, …
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
3- github.com/strukturag/libheif/commit/b8c12a7b70f46c9516711a988483bed377b78d46mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/strukturag/libheif/releases/tag/v1.21.0mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/strukturag/libheif/security/advisories/GHSA-j87x-4gmq-cqfqmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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