High severity7.5OSV Advisory· Published Mar 9, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-7998
CVE-2018-7998
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.
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References
3- github.com/jcupitt/libvips/commit/20d840e6da15c1574b3ed998bc92f91d1e36c2a5nvdPatch
- github.com/jcupitt/libvips/issues/893nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00009.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
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