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High · 8.4 CVE-2026-69242 EUVD-2026-63651

libvips: Integer overflow leading to heap buffer overflow leading to possible attacker-controlled mmap-resident write

Published Aug 20, 2026 · Updated Aug 21, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

libvips is a fast image processing library with low memory needs. Prior to version 8.18.3, a crafted many-band TIFF processed through VipsForeignLoadTiff can evade scanline validation in libvips/iofuncs/image.c and cause an integer overflow in vips_image_sanity. The resulting buffer-region calculation can access attacker-controlled negative offsets in mmap-resident allocations, allowing reads or writes of other image data, possible data disclosure through uncompressed .v output, and likely process crashes. Remote code execution has not been demonstrated but cannot be ruled out. This issue is fixed in version 8.18.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
libvips libvips < 8.18.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 vips 8.18.3-1 —
Debian 13 vips 8.16.1-1+deb13u2 —
Debian 12 vips No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS vips 8.18.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 USN-8994-1
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS vips 8.15.1-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm2 USN-8994-1
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS vips 8.12.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm3 USN-8994-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS vips 8.9.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm2 USN-8994-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS vips 8.4.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 USN-8994-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS vips 8.2.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 USN-8994-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed vips 8.18.7-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12266-1

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