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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

Published Mar 9, 2018

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 products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-362

Race Condition

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

References (4)

Change history (0)

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 9, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Mar 9, 2018
Link CVE-2018-7998

CISA Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2018-7998

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner mitre
Published Mar 9, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Link EUVD-2018-19710

GitHub

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