UBUNTU-CVE-2023-40032

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-40032

    Published: 11 Sept 2023Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-40032
    Aliases:
    USN-6437-1

    Summary:

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-40032, https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/3604, https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/e091d65835966ef56d53a4105a7362cafdb1582b, https://github.com/libvips/libvips/security/advisories/GHSA-33qp-9pq7-9584, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6437-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-40032

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: vips

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/jammy

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8.12.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    8.10.5-2ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Network
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
    None
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