Potential segfault due to NULL pointer dereference in libvips
CVE-2023-40032

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Libvips

Status
Libvips
Vendor
CVE Published:
11 September 2023

What is CVE-2023-40032?

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.

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Affected Version(s)

libvips < 8.14.4

References

https://github.com/libvips/libvips/security/advisories/GH...
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https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/3604
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https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/e091d65835966ef...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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