Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : libvips vulnerability (USN-8755-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8755-1 advisory. It was discovered that libvips incorrectly handled specially crafted TIFF images when saving them as HEIF images. An attacker...

USN-8755-1: libvips vulnerability

It was discovered that libvips incorrectly handled specially crafted TIFF images when saving them as HEIF images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libvips to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

PT-2026-91842

It was discovered that libvips incorrectly handled specially crafted TIFF images when saving them as HEIF images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libvips to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

CVE-2025-29769 libvips has a potential heap-based buffer overflow when attempting to convert multiband TIFF input to HEIF output

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...