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An attacker could possibly use this issue to crash the\nprogram, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu\n20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-23109)\n\nEugene Lim discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image data.\nAn attacker could possibly use this issue to crash the program, resulting\nin a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu\n20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-0996)\n\nMin Jang discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image data.\nAn attacker could possibly use this issue to crash the program, resulting\nin a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and\nUbuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-29659)\n\nYuchuan Meng discovered that libheif incorrectly handled certain image data.\nAn attacker could possibly use this issue to crash the program, resulting\nin a denial of service. 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