# RUSTSEC-2026-0456: Panic on an HEVC tile layout that does not match the active SPS

- Also known as: GHSA-RCFF-5X58-7W2P
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.3.27
- Published: 2026-11-04 · Updated: 2026-11-09

RUSTSEC-2026-0456 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It affects heifer-hevc-dec; fixed in 0.3.27.

## Summary

The heifer-hevc-dec Rust crate, and the heifer crate that depends on it, can crash when decoding a crafted HEIC or HEVC stream whose tile layout does not fit the picture size. An attacker can cause a panic that aborts the decoding thread, or the whole process if it is built with panic = "abort", and can also cause a picture to be decoded incorrectly.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- heifer-hevc-dec (crates.io): fixed in 0.3.27

## Description

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`](https://github.com/HarpeLm/Heifer/commit/71dfc67f1e3ae3c4b7e4cf633e83a26c94b06a92)): a tile layout that does not match the picture size is rejected with `Error::Invalid` at decode time.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on heifer-hevc-dec, upgrade to a fixed version (0.3.27) per the references below.
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## FAQ

### Is RUSTSEC-2026-0456 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.

Source: https://cve.now/RUSTSEC-2026-0456

### Which versions are affected by RUSTSEC-2026-0456?

heifer-hevc-dec (crates.io): from 0.0.0-0 before 0.3.27.

Source: https://cve.now/RUSTSEC-2026-0456

### How do I fix RUSTSEC-2026-0456?

Upgrade to a fixed version: 0.3.27.

Source: https://cve.now/RUSTSEC-2026-0456

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## References

- https://crates.io/crates/heifer-hevc-dec
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0456.html
- https://github.com/HarpeLm/Heifer/commit/71dfc67f1e3ae3c4b7e4cf633e83a26c94b06a92

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