UBUNTU-CVE-2023-0996

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-0996

    Published: 24 Feb 2023Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-0996
    Aliases:
    USN-6847-1

    Summary:

    Details: There is a vulnerability in the strided image data parsing code in the emscripten wrapper for libheif. An attacker could exploit this through a crafted image file to cause a buffer overflow in linear memory during a memcpy call.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-0996, https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/pull/759, https://govtech-csg.github.io/security-advisories/2023/02/24/CVE-2023-0996.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0996, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6847-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libheif

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/focal

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.6.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    1.5.0-1build1
    1.5.1-1
    1.5.1-1build1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High