CVE-2020-19499

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-19499
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-19499.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-19499
Downstream
Published
2021-07-21T18:15:09Z
Modified
2026-08-07T15:14:20Z
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::Box_iref::get_references 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
fca25874bb8021dede702bb7023a22af1a8a06ab
Last Affected
fca25874bb8021dede702bb7023a22af1a8a06ab
Fixed
f7399b62d7fbc596f1b2871578c1d2053bedf1dd
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:struktur:libheif:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.4.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.4.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_STRING",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.4.0
v1.*
v1.4.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-19499.json"
vanir_signatures 
[
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "298365236335932029718948655364595063960",
            "length": 551
        },
        "id": "CVE-2020-19499-3ed6b852",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/commit/f7399b62d7fbc596f1b2871578c1d2053bedf1dd",
        "target": {
            "file": "libheif/heif_context.cc",
            "function": "HeifContext::get_id_of_non_virtual_child_image"
        }
    },
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "95267164885634210382392158749447266934",
                "83457711232404756495386676341864987400",
                "111503610894445712197809965462065388581",
                "77959063699929980087287118117281578552"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "id": "CVE-2020-19499-7b3219ee",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/commit/f7399b62d7fbc596f1b2871578c1d2053bedf1dd",
        "target": {
            "file": "libheif/heif_context.cc"
        }
    }
]
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-08-07T15:14:20Z"