CVE-2023-40032 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-40032: Potential segfault due to NULL pointer dereference in libvips

Vendor Libvips
Product libvips
Weakness CWE-476
Published September 11, 2023
Last update February 13, 2025
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CVSS base score

5.5/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 11, 2023 CVE published
February 13, 2025 Record updated