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 many ways to create a "multiband" input, but it is possible with a well-crafted TIFF image. If a "multiband" TIFF input image had 4 channels and HEIF-based output was requested, this led to libvips creating a 3 channel HEIF image without an alpha channel but then attempting to write 4 channels of data. This caused a heap buffer overflow, which could crash the process. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.16.1.

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 could possibly use this issue to cause libvips to crash, resulting in a denial of     service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5915 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5915-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                     Salvatore Bonaccorso     May 03, 2025                          https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : vips     CVE ID         : CVE-2025-29769

    A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in vips, an     fast image processing library designed with efficiency in mind, which     may result in denial of service (application crash) if a specially     crafted TIFF image file is processed.

    For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in     version 8.14.1-3+deb12u2.

    We recommend that you upgrade your vips packages.

    For the detailed security status of vips please refer to its security     tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/vips

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-4148 advisory.

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4148-1                debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/                       Guilhem Moulin     April 30, 2025                                https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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    Package        : vips     Version        : 8.10.5-2+deb11u1     CVE ID         : CVE-2025-29769

    A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in vips, an image processing     system, which could lead to denial of service when processing specially     crafted TIFF images.

    For Debian 11 bullseye, this problem has been fixed in version     8.10.5-2+deb11u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your vips packages.

    For the detailed security status of vips please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/vips

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS     Attachment:
    signature.asc     Description: PGP signature

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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 many ways to     create a multiband input, but it is possible with a well-crafted TIFF image. If a multiband TIFF input     image had 4 channels and HEIF-based output was requested, this led to libvips creating a 3 channel HEIF     image without an alpha channel but then attempting to write 4 channels of data. This caused a heap buffer     overflow, which could crash the process. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.16.1. (CVE-2025-29769)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
345856	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : libvips vulnerability (USN-8755-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
235099	Debian dsa-5915 : gir1.2-vips-8.0 - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
235042	Debian dla-4148 : gir1.2-vips-8.0 - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
234209	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-29769	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high

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