Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting vips package, versions <8.7.4-1
Threat Intelligence
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- published21 Jul 2026
- disclosed26 Jan 2019
Introduced: 26 Jan 2019
CVE-2019-6976 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Echo:latest vips to version 8.7.4-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vips package and not the vips package as distributed by Echo.
See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.
libvips before 8.7.4 generates output images from uninitialized memory locations when processing corrupted input image data because iofuncs/memory.c does not zero out allocated memory. This can result in leaking raw process memory contents through the output image.
References
- https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2019-6976
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6976
- https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2019/04/18/drop-by-drop-bleeding-through-libvips/
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/00622428bda8d7521db8d74260b519fa41d69d0a
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/releases/tag/v8.7.4