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Libheif DoS CVE-2024-25269 (macOS)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200211

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Synopsis

Libheif running on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version, libheif prior to 1.17.6 contains a memory leak in the function JpegEncoder::Encode. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to libheif version 1.17.6 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/issues/1073

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200211

File Name: libheif_CVE-2024-25269.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 6/7/2024

Updated: 6/10/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-25269

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:ibm:struktur:libheif

Required KB Items: installed_sw/libheif

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-25269

IAVA: 2024-B-0073