GHSA-qjwf-h778-47mm

GHSA-qjwf-h778-47mm PUBLISHED CVSS 2.5 LOW

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published February 22, 2026

A vulnerability was determined in libvips up to 8.19.0. The affected element is the function vips_source_read_to_memory of the file libvips/iofuncs/source.c. This manipulation causes heap-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The attack's complexity is rated as high. The exploitability is described as difficult. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized. Patch name: a56feecbe9ed66521d9647ec9fbcd2546eccd7ee. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue. The confirmation of the bugfix mentions: "[T]he impact of this is negligible, since this only affects custom seekable sources larger than 4 GiB (and the crash occurs in user code rather than libvips itself)."

Fixed versions

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Package	Ecosystem	Fixed in
libvips	Chainguard	8.18.0-r3
libvips-8.17	Chainguard	8.17.3-r1
libvips	Wolfi	8.18.0-r3
libvips-8.17	Wolfi	8.17.3-r1

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

2.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
chainguard	libvips	0
chainguard	libvips-8.17	0
wolfi	libvips	0
wolfi	libvips-8.17	0

Timeline

Feb 22, 2026 CVE Published
May 1, 2026 Security Advisory

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