# CVE-2026-62289: libheif: Integer underflow in Fraction constructor via double clap transform application

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.23.1
- Published: 2026-08-18 · Updated: 2026-08-19

## Affected

- strukturag libheif: fixed in 1.23.1

## Description

libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. In 1.23.0 and earlier, a crafted HEIF or AVIF file containing a clean aperture box can reduce an image dimension to zero and crash or corrupt tiling results when heif_image_handle_get_image_tiling(handle, 1, &tiling) is called. ImageItem::get_heif_image_tiling() returns already transformed dimensions, and process_image_transformations_on_tiling() applies the clean aperture transformation again. The second application passes zero to Box_clap::left_rounded(0), where image_width minus one underflows and constructs Fraction(0xFFFFFFFF, 2). Debug builds reach an assertion and abort, while release builds can return a corrupt crop and zero-width tiling result. The affected implementation spans libheif/image-items/image_item.cc, libheif/context.cc, and libheif/box.cc. This issue is fixed in version 1.23.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on strukturag libheif, upgrade to a fixed version (1.23.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/security/advisories/GHSA-jc8f-p23p-5hjg
- https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/commit/f01870c1d7323a3003796d58eba7fff502be994c
- https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/releases/tag/v1.23.1

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