CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-29769
8.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-04-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-122
Description
libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. The heifsave operation could incorrectly determine the presence of an alpha channel in an input when it was not possible to determine the colour interpretation, known internally within libvips as "multiband". There aren't many ways to create a "multiband" input, but it is possible with a well-crafted TIFF image. If a "multiband" TIFF input image had 4 channels and HEIF-based output was requested, this led to libvips creating a 3 channel HEIF image without an alpha channel but then attempting to write 4 channels of data. This caused a heap buffer overflow, which could crash the process. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.16.1.
Affected configurations
• libvips libvips (< 8.16.1)
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness
References
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/9ab6784f693de50b00fa535b9efbbe9d2cbf71f2 Patch
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/4392 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/4394 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/security/advisories/GHSA-f8r8-43hh-rghm Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues/396460413 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00044.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory