CVE-2023-40032
Potential segfault due to NULL pointer dereference in libvips
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.5 Medium
- Published
- Sep 11, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Reserved
- Aug 8, 2023
Description
libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. A specially crafted SVG input can cause libvips versions 8.14.3 or earlier to segfault when attempting to parse a malformed UTF-8 character. Users should upgrade to libvips version 8.14.4 (or later) when processing untrusted input.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
libvipslibvips |
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References
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/security/advisories/GHSA-33qp-9pq7-9584
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/3604
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/e091d65835966ef56d53a4105a7362cafdb1582b
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YU2FFC47X2XDEGEHEWAGLU5L3R6FEYD2/
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