CVE-2025-29769
This caused a heap buffer overflow, which could crash the process.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.28%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. The heifsave operation could incorrectly determine the presence of an alpha channel in an input when it was not possible to determine the colour interpretation, known internally within libvips as "multiband". There aren't many ways to create a "multiband" input, but it is possible with a well-crafted TIFF image. If a "multiband" TIFF input image had 4 channels and HEIF-based output was requested, this led to libvips creating a 3 channel HEIF image without an alpha channel but then attempting to write 4 channels of data. This caused a heap buffer overflow, which could crash the process. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.16.1.
- CVSS 4.0
- 8.5 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.28% probability · 21th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-122
- Affected
- libvips/libvips · debian/debian linux
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/9ab6784f693de50b00fa535b9efbbe9d2cbf71f2Patch
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/4392Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/4394Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/security/advisories/GHSA-f8r8-43hh-rghmPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues/396460413Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00044.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.