Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package vips  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-VIPS-641890
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed13 Oct 2019

Introduced: 13 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17534  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vips package and not the vips package as distributed by Ubuntu.

vips_foreign_load_gif_scan_image in foreign/gifload.c in libvips before 8.8.2 tries to access a color map before a DGifGetImageDesc call, leading to a use-after-free.