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GHSA-rcff-5x58-7w2p json

Panic on an HEVC tile layout that does not match the active SPS

published 7d ago modified 2d ago also RUSTSEC-2026-0456

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, OSV
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An HEVC picture parameter set (PPS) stores explicit tile column widths and row heights computed against the sequence parameter set (SPS) active when it was parsed. A crafted stream can redefine that SPS afterwards, so that the tile sizes add up to more than the picture. The decoder then indexed past its coding tree block tables: Rust's bounds checks turned this into a panic, or the picture was decoded wrongly. A panic aborts the decoding thread, or the whole process when built with `panic = "abort"`. The crate forbids `unsafe` code, so there is no memory corruption.

Any application that decodes untrusted HEIC files or HEVC streams with `heifer-hevc-dec`, directly or through the `heifer` crate, is affected.

The flaw was corrected in 0.3.27 (commit [`71dfc67`](https://github.com/HarpeLm/Heifer/commit/71dfc67f1e3ae3c4b7e4cf633e83a26c94b06a92)): a tile layout that does not match the picture size is rejected with `Error::Invalid` at decode time.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io heifer-hevc-dec 0.3.27

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io heifer-hevc-dec
>=0.0.0-0, <0.3.27
0.3.27

References

Sources

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