Electron: Crash in clipboard.readImage() on malformed clipboard image data

Impact Apps that call clipboard.readImage may be vulnerable to a denial of service. If the system clipboard contains image data that fails to decode, the resulting null bitmap is passed unchecked to image construction, triggering a controlled abort and crashing the process. Apps are only affected...

PT-2026-30919

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Electron versions prior to 39.8.5, prior to 40.8.5, prior to 41.1.0, and prior to 42.0.0-alpha.5 Description Applications utilizing the clipboard.readImage function may experience a denial of service. If the system clipboard contains image dat...