CVE-2026-3281

libvips bandrank.c vips_bandrank_build heap-based overflow

State: Published
Severity: 4.8 Medium
Published: Feb 27, 2026
Updated: Feb 27, 2026
Reserved: Feb 26, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was detected in libvips 8.19.0. This affects the function vips_bandrank_build of the file libvips/conversion/bandrank.c. Performing a manipulation of the argument index results in heap-based buffer overflow. The attack must be initiated from a local position. The exploit is now public and may be used. The patch is named fd28c5463697712cb0ab116a2c55e4f4d92c4088. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	4.8 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P	VulDB
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C	VulDB
3.0	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C	VulDB
2.0	4.3 Medium	AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C	VulDB

Weaknesses

CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-119 Memory Corruption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
libvipsn/a	8.19.0Affected

References

VDB-348010 | libvips bandrank.c vips_bandrank_build heap-based overflowvdb-entrytechnical-description
VDB-348010 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)signaturepermissions-required
Submit #758861 | libvips 8.19.0(7fab325d2) Improper Validation of Array Indexthird-party-advisory
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4878issue-tracking
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/4895issue-trackingpatch
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4878#issue-3944209102exploitissue-tracking
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/fd28c5463697712cb0ab116a2c55e4f4d92c4088patch
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/product

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