Bug 1217899 (CVE-2023-49463)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2023-49463: libheif: libheif: find_exif_tag SEGV
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	abergmann
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/387371/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2023-49463:6.2:(AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description SMASH SMASH 2023-12-08 07:50:23 UTC

libheif v1.17.5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function find_exif_tag at /libheif/exif.cc.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-49463

Comment 1 Alexander Bergmann 2023-12-08 07:52:16 UTC

The issue lies inside the libheif example code, not inside the library itself.

Furthermore the affected code is not present in our current version of libheif.

Closing as fixed.