GHSA-rcff-5x58-7w2p: Panic on an HEVC tile layout that does not match the active SPS

Published Nov 4, 2026
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Updated

An HEVC picture parameter set (PPS) stores explicit tile column widths and row heights computed against the sequence parameter set (SPS) active when it was parsed. A crafted stream can redefine that SPS afterwards, so that the tile sizes add up to more than the picture. The decoder then indexed past its coding tree block tables: Rust's bounds checks turned this into a panic, or the picture was decoded wrongly. A panic aborts the decoding thread, or the whole process when built with panic = "abort". The crate forbids unsafe code, so there is no memory corruption.

Any application that decodes untrusted HEIC files or HEVC streams with heifer-hevc-dec, directly or through the heifer crate, is affected.

The flaw was corrected in 0.3.27 (commit 71dfc67): a tile layout that does not match the picture size is rejected with Error::Invalid at decode time.

Affected Software

1 affected componentFixes available
rust/heifer-hevc-dec>=0.0.0-0<0.3.27
0.3.27

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade rust/heifer-hevc-dec to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 0.3.27

Event History

Nov 4, 2026
Advisory Published
via OSV·12:00 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·12:00 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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