5.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2018-7998

Published: 09/03/2018 Updated: 29/09/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.1 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 4.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.6
VMScore: 454
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

In libvips prior to 8.6.3, a NULL function pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the vips_region_generate function in region.c, which allows remote malicious users 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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Debian Bug report logs - #892589 vips: CVE-2018-7998 Package: src:vips; Maintainer for src:vips is Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 07:33:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security, upstream Found in version vips/845-1 Fix ...