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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8526-1
July 09, 2026

libheif vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 25.10

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in libheif.

Software Description:
- libheif: An ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and 
encoder

Details:

Xianrui Dong discovered that libheif had an out-of-bounds read in its
HEIF sequence track parser. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-47254)

Junyi Liu discovered that libheif had a null pointer dereference in its
image tiling interface. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-47709)

Calvin Young and Enoch Chow discovered that libheif had an integer
overflow in its inline mask size calculation. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive
information. (CVE-2026-47714)

Ariel Koren discovered that libheif had an integer underflow in its
grid image tile coordinate transform. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information.
(CVE-2026-48029)

It was discovered that libheif had a missing bound check in its HEIF
sequence parser, allowing unbounded heap allocation. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-50142)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
  heif-gdk-pixbuf                 1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  heif-thumbnailer                1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  heif-view                       1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-dev                     1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-examples                1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugin-aomdec           1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugin-aomenc           1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugin-dav1d            1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugin-ffmpegdec        1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugin-j2kdec           1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugin-j2kenc           1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugin-jpegdec          1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugin-jpegenc          1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugin-kvazaar          1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugin-libde265         1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugin-rav1e            1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugin-svtenc           1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugin-x265             1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif-plugins-all             1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  libheif1                        1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 25.10
  heif-gdk-pixbuf                 1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  heif-thumbnailer                1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  heif-view                       1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-dev                     1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-examples                1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugin-aomdec           1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugin-aomenc           1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugin-dav1d            1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugin-ffmpegdec        1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugin-j2kdec           1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugin-j2kenc           1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugin-jpegdec          1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugin-jpegenc          1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugin-kvazaar          1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugin-libde265         1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugin-rav1e            1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugin-svtenc           1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugin-x265             1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif-plugins-all             1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6
  libheif1                        1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8526-1
  CVE-2026-47254, CVE-2026-47709, CVE-2026-47714, CVE-2026-48029,
  CVE-2026-50142

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libheif/1.21.2-3ubuntu0.3
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libheif/1.20.2-1ubuntu0.6

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