CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-43966

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 21, 2025 | Modified: May 08, 2025

CVSS 3.x

7.5

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

MEDIUM

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43966
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

libheif before 1.19.6 has a NULL pointer dereference in ImageItem_iden in image-items/iden.cc.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Libheif	Struktur	*	1.19.6 (excluding)
Libheif	Ubuntu	upstream	*

Potential Mitigations

References

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