CVE-2018-7998

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 9, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Mar 9, 2018

Description

In libvips before 8.6.3, a NULL function pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the vips_region_generate function in region.c, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file. This occurs because of a race condition involving a failed delayed load and other worker threads.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/commit/20d840e6da15c1574b3ed998bc92f91d1e36c2a5
https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/issues/893
[debian-lts-announce] 20180311 [SECURITY] [DLA 1306-1] vips security updatemailing-list

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