CVE-2026-62377 PUBLISHED

libheif: Reachable assertion in HeifContext::get_track() aborts on a valid-but-empty HEIF sequence file (context.cc:2110)

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 13.07.2026 Published: 18.08.2026 Updated: 18.08.2026

libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. In 1.23.0 and earlier, a crafted HEIF sequence accepted by heif_context_read_from_memory() can leave the context with no registered sequence tracks and crash when heif_context_get_track(ctx, 0) is called. HeifContext::get_track() in libheif/context.cc executes assert(has_sequence()) before its normal error handling, so assert-enabled builds abort instead of allowing the public wrapper in libheif/api/libheif/heif_sequences.cc to return null. In release builds, removing the assertion lets the track_id zero path dereference m_tracks.begin()->second on an empty map, which is undefined behavior and typically crashes. The issue is reachable through documented public APIs after parsing attacker-controlled bytes. This issue is fixed in version 1.23.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor strukturag
Product libheif
Versions
  • Version < 1.23.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-617: Reachable Assertion CWE
  • CWE-908: Use of Uninitialized Resource CWE