SB2018030920 - Denial of service in libvips
Published: March 9, 2018 Updated: October 13, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018030920
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7998)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the vips_region_generate() function in region.c in the libvips library. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the library and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.