vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6437-1 (CVE-2019-6976): VIPS vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 26, 2019
Added
Oct 19, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

libvips before 8.7.4 generates output images from uninitialized memory locations when processing corrupted input image data because iofuncs/memory.c does not zero out allocated memory. This can result in leaking raw process memory contents through the output image.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-gir1-2-vips-8-0ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libvips-toolsubuntu-pro-upgrade-libvips42ubuntu-pro-upgrade-python-vipscc
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