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Fedora 41 : libheif (2025-8fdb7be3cb)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216347

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-8fdb7be3cb advisory.

 Latest upstream release. It adds support for tiles and fixes reading images generated by iOS 18+. See https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/releases for more details about the changes since 1.17.6.

 **NOTE:** `heif-convert` tool was renamed to `heif-dec`.

 How to test:
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 Download and unzip sample images from [mastodon issue #31570](https://github.com/user- attachments/files/16734152/HEIF-images.zip). Try opening them with e.g. `loupe` or `gimp`. They fail to open with `libheif-1.17.6`, but should open successfully with `libheif-1.19.5`.

 Fixes [CVE-2024-41311](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mwf7-wfvq-vc32) .

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

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

Solution

Update the affected libheif package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-8fdb7be3cb

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 216347

File Name: fedora_2025-8fdb7be3cb.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/15/2025

Updated: 3/25/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-41311

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libheif, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-41311

FEDORA: 2025-8fdb7be3cb

IAVB: 2024-B-0162