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FEDORA-2025-666aaa6a0d

Packages in this update:

libheif-1.19.5-3.fc40

Update description:

Latest upstream release. It adds support for tiles and fixes reading images generated by iOS 18+. See https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/releases for more details about the changes since 1.17.6.

NOTE: heif-convert tool was renamed to heif-dec.

How to test:

Download and unzip sample images from mastodon issue #31570. Try opening them with e.g. loupe or gimp. They fail to open with libheif-1.17.6, but should open successfully with libheif-1.19.5.

Fixes CVE-2024-41311 .

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