CVE-2023-40032

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    CVE-2023-40032

    Published: 11 Sept 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Potential segfault due to NULL pointer dereference in libvips

    Details: libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. A specially crafted SVG input can cause libvips versions 8.14.3 or earlier to segfault when attempting to parse a malformed UTF-8 character. Users should upgrade to libvips version 8.14.4 (or later) when processing untrusted input.

    References: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YU2FFC47X2XDEGEHEWAGLU5L3R6FEYD2/, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/40xxx/CVE-2023-40032.json, https://github.com/libvips/libvips/security/advisories/GHSA-33qp-9pq7-9584, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40032, https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/e091d65835966ef56d53a4105a7362cafdb1582b, https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/3604

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- f352bcd1911d8076a5d5a218d2d15f5d583d4e5b
    Fixed -f049dcdfc434d643e3155bb990192d489ae5ff1a

    Affected versions

    v8.14.3
    v8.14.2
    v8.14.1
    v8.14.0
    v8.14.0-rc1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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