CVE-2026-70654 PUBLISHED

libvips: A well-crafted PPM image processed via a custom source could lead to possible heap buffer write overflow

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 04.08.2026 Published: 20.08.2026 Updated: 21.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 5.8

Product Status

Vendor libvips
Product libvips
Versions
  • Version < 8.18.3 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow CWE