CVE-2025-29482

Publication date 7 April 2025

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libheif 1.19.7 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the SAO (Sample Adaptive Offset) processing of libde265.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libheif	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

This is a stack overflow, so likely limited to a denial of service only because of compiler hardening. per the upstream bug, this was actually fixed in 1.0.5

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libheif	Upstream: 7db4e81

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.2 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H