CVE-2020-19499

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-19499
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-19499.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-19499
Downstream
Published
2021-07-21T18:15:09.167Z
Modified
2025-11-14T10:54:46.358304Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in heif::Boxiref::getreferences in libheif 1.4.0, allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service or possibly other unspecified impact due to an invalid memory read.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/strukturag/libheif

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/strukturag/libheif
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
f7399b62d7fbc596f1b2871578c1d2053bedf1dd

Affected versions

v1.*

v1.0.0
v1.1.0
v1.2.0
v1.3.0
v1.3.1
v1.3.2
v1.4.0

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "id": "CVE-2020-19499-3ed6b852",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/commit/f7399b62d7fbc596f1b2871578c1d2053bedf1dd",
        "digest": {
            "length": 551.0,
            "function_hash": "298365236335932029718948655364595063960"
        },
        "target": {
            "function": "HeifContext::get_id_of_non_virtual_child_image",
            "file": "libheif/heif_context.cc"
        }
    },
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "id": "CVE-2020-19499-7b3219ee",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/commit/f7399b62d7fbc596f1b2871578c1d2053bedf1dd",
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "95267164885634210382392158749447266934",
                "83457711232404756495386676341864987400",
                "111503610894445712197809965462065388581",
                "77959063699929980087287118117281578552"
            ]
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "libheif/heif_context.cc"
        }
    }
]