Medium severity · published Sep 20, 2021
CVE-2021-32289
An issue was discovered in heif through through v3.6.2
5.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in heif through through v3.6.2. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function convertByteStreamToRBSP() located in nalutil.cpp. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 51% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
HE
Heif · Nokia
through 3.6.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32289
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32289
Exploit
https://github.com/nokiatech/heif/issues/85
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