Fixed point of the SHA-256 compression function SHA256 Free Start Self Collision (Full 64 rounds)

IVec:

72BF9EF1 27B82DFB F298F3B7 22B6C32C 18A54860 4C032D91 ADD7B85B 7ED1A4AC


Block:

0000004D 0000006F 00000075 00000073 00000065 00000054 00000072 00000061
00000070 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000000 000001B8


Output:

72BF9EF1 27B82DFB F298F3B7 22B6C32C 18A54860 4C032D91 ADD7B85B 7ED1A4AC


http://modalisengineering.com/crypt/sha256mt.c

Is this an issue?
SHA-256 is based on a Davies–Meyer compression function. Easy to find fixed-points are a known property of this construction.

A notable property of the Davies–Meyer construction is that even if the underlying block cipher is totally secure, it is possible to compute fixed points for the construction : for any $m$, one can find a value of $h$ such that $E_m(h) \oplus h = h$ : one just has to set $h = E_m^{-1}(0)$. This is a property that random functions certainly do not have. So far, no practical attack has been based on this property, but one should be aware of this &quot;feature&quot;.
The fixed-points can be used in a second preimage attack (given a message m1, attacker finds another message m2 to satisfy hash(m1) = hash(m2) ) of Kelsey and Schneier for a $2^k$-message-block message in time $3 \cdot 2^{n/2+1}+2^{n-k+1}$. If the construction does not allow easy creation of fixed points (like Matyas–Meyer–Oseas or Miyaguchi–Preneel) then this attack can be done in $k \cdot 2^{n/2+1}+2^{n-k+1}$ time. Note that in both cases the complexity is above $2^{n/2}$ but below $2^n$ when messages are long and that when messages get shorter the complexity of the attack approaches $2^n$.

(from One-way compression function - wikipedia)
Thanks to Samuel Neves for pointing this out.