Medium severity5.3OSV Advisory· Published Jan 26, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-6976
CVE-2019-6976
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.
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References
3- github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/00622428bda8d7521db8d74260b519fa41d69d0anvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- blog.silentsignal.eu/2019/04/18/drop-by-drop-bleeding-through-libvips/nvdTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
- github.com/libvips/libvips/releases/tag/v8.7.4nvdThird Party Advisory
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