CVE-2018-7998

Summary

CVECVE-2018-7998
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-09 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-29 11:18:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362 | CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Libvips Libvips All All All All
Application Libvips Project Libvips All All All All
Application Libvips Project Libvips All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
fix a crash with delayed load · libvips/libvips@20d840e · GitHub MISC github.com Patch
[SECURITY] [DLA 1306-1] vips security update MLIST lists.debian.org Third Party Advisory
NULL generate_fn() function pointer dereference vulnerability in vips_region_generate() · Issue #893 · libvips/libvips · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199837 Ubuntu Security Notification for VIPS Vulnerabilities (USN-6437-1)

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