vips — security advisory
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.
- Products
- vips
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 8.4.5-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-7998
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7998
vips
Fixed versions: 8.4.5-2
vips
Fixed versions: 8.4.5-2
vips
Fixed versions: 8.4.5-2
Complete source record
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