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CVE-2023-29659

Publication date 5 May 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

A Segmentation fault caused by a floating point exception exists in libheif 1.15.1 using crafted heif images via the heif::Fraction::round() function in box.cc, which causes a denial of service.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libheif 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar Ignored
22.10 kinetic Ignored
22.04 LTS jammy
20.04 LTS focal
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
libheif

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H