Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 11, 2023· Updated Feb 13, 2025
Potential segfault due to NULL pointer dereference in libvips
CVE-2023-40032
Description
libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. A specially crafted SVG input can cause libvips versions 8.14.3 or earlier to segfault when attempting to parse a malformed UTF-8 character. Users should upgrade to libvips version 8.14.4 (or later) when processing untrusted input.
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4- github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/e091d65835966ef56d53a4105a7362cafdb1582bmitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/3604mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/libvips/libvips/security/advisories/GHSA-33qp-9pq7-9584mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YU2FFC47X2XDEGEHEWAGLU5L3R6FEYD2/mitre
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