CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedApplications utilizing libvips versions prior to 8.18.3 that define custom sources for processing untrusted uncompressed PPM images are vulnerable to a memory corruption issue due to improper handling of read sizes. This flaw can lead to crashes or potential exploitation through heap buffer overflows. Developers and organizations using libvips for image processing should prioritize upgrading to the patched version to mitigate these risks.
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Original NVD 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.