libheif vulnerable to segmentation fault via floating point exception

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2023-29659 · GHSA-22fx-6r9m-r8h9 · Published 05/05/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-29659 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting github.com/strukturag/libheif, libheif (struktur).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.93%, higher than 60.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.15.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
github.com/strukturag/libheif Go	`< 1.15.2`	`1.15.2`
libheif struktur	`= 1.15.1`	No fix yet

Description

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.

NVD description

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.

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