CVE-2026-32739 (GCVE-0-2026-32739)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-19 19:10 – Updated: 2026-05-20 13:07
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Title
libheif is Vulnerable to Infinite Loop DoS via stts Sample Duration Lookup
Summary
libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. In versions 1.21.2 and below, a crafted 800-byte HEIF sequence file causes an infinite loop in Box_stts::get_sample_duration(), consuming 100% CPU indefinitely with zero progress, leading to DoS. The loop has no iteration limit or timeout and is triggered during file open (parsing) - before any user interaction or image decoding. The process stays alive (no crash, no error logged), making it invisible to crash-based monitoring. This issue has been fixed in version 1.22.0.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
strukturag libheif Affected: < 1.22.0
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