CVE-2023-40032 (GCVE-0-2023-40032)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-11 18:34 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:03
VLAI
Title
Potential segfault due to NULL pointer dereference in libvips
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
libvips libvips Affected: < 8.14.4
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