CVE-2019-6976
mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.023 · 83 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
libvips before 8.7.4 generates output images from uninitialized memory locations when processing corrupted input image data because iofuncs/memory.c does not zero out allocated memory. This can result in leaking raw process memory contents through the output image.
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affected products (2)
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references (9)
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- https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2019/04/18/drop-by-drop-bleeding-through-libvips/cnnvd
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/00622428bda8d7521db8d74260b519fa41d69d0acnnvd
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/releases/tag/v8.7.4cnnvd
- https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2019/04/18/drop-by-drop-bleeding-through-libvips/enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/00622428bda8d7521db8d74260b519fa41d69d0aenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/releases/tag/v8.7.4enisa_euvd
- https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2019/04/18/drop-by-drop-bleeding-through-libvips/Technical DescriptionThird Party Advisorynvd
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/00622428bda8d7521db8d74260b519fa41d69d0aPatchThird Party Advisorynvd
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