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Medium · 5.8 CVE-2026-70654 EUVD-2026-63656

libvips: A well-crafted PPM image processed via a custom source could lead to possible heap buffer write overflow

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, applications that define unusual custom libvips sources and use them to process untrusted uncompressed PPM images can trigger a max/min error in vips_source_read_to_memory in libvips/iofuncs/source.c. The function uses VIPS_MAX instead of VIPS_MIN when selecting the remaining read size, allowing up to 4032 bytes to be written beyond the allocated heap buffer and causing memory corruption or a process crash. 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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