CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-7998

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-03-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-03-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-476

Description

In 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.

Affected configurations

• libvips libvips (< 8.6.3) • debian debian linux 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References