The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6847-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image data. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to crash the program, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2019-11471)

    Reza Mirzazade Farkhani discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image data. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to crash the program, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-23109)

    Eugene Lim discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image data. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to crash the program, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04     LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-0996)

    Min Jang discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image data. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to crash the program, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04     LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-29659)

    Yuchuan Meng discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image data. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to crash the program, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu     23.10. (CVE-2023-49460, CVE-2023-49462, CVE-2023-49463, CVE-2023-49464)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : libheif vulnerabilities (USN-6847-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 201014

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Version 1.3 Oct 25, 2024, 10:52 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202410251052
Version 1.2 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.1 Jun 26, 2024, 6:09 AM New Plugin Feed: 202406260609