Upstream information

CVE-2023-40032 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (GitHub) National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.5 5.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required Low Low
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1215232 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • libvips-devel >= 8.18.7-1.1
  • libvips42 >= 8.18.7-1.1
  • typelib-1_0-Vips-8.0 >= 8.18.7-1.1
  • vips-bash-completion >= 8.18.7-1.1
  • vips-doc >= 8.18.7-1.1
  • vips-modules-8.0 >= 8.18.7-1.1
  • vips-tools >= 8.18.7-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2026-12266

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Sep 11 22:05:30 2023
CVE page last modified: Sun Oct 25 15:26:04 2026