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High USN-8755-1 1 CVE

vips vulnerability

Published Sep 14, 2026 · Updated Sep 14, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that libvips incorrectly handled specially crafted TIFF
images when saving them as HEIF images. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause libvips to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS vips 8.9.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 22.04 LTS Pro:22.04:LTS vips 8.12.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
Ubuntu · Pro 24.04 LTS Pro:24.04:LTS vips 8.15.1-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 26.04 LTS Pro:26.04:LTS vips 8.18.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 8.5
    CVE-2025-29769

    libvips has a potential heap-based buffer overflow when attempting to convert multiband TIFF input to HEIF output

    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 withi…

    libvips libvips vips vips Debian Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-29769