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Debian: CVE-2018-7998: vips -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 9, 2018
Added
Feb 25, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-vips
Title
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