CVE-2026-2913

low

Description

A vulnerability was determined in libvips up to 8.19.0. The affected element is the function vips_source_read_to_memory of the file libvips/iofuncs/source.c. This manipulation causes heap-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The attack's complexity is rated as high. The exploitability is described as difficult. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized. Patch name: a56feecbe9ed66521d9647ec9fbcd2546eccd7ee. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue. The confirmation of the bugfix mentions: "[T]he impact of this is negligible, since this only affects custom seekable sources larger than 4 GiB (and the crash occurs in user code rather than libvips itself)."

References

https://vuldb.com/?submit.755224

https://vuldb.com/?id.347222

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.347222

https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4857#issuecomment-3878479322

https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4857#issue-3920154326

https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4857

https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/a56feecbe9ed66521d9647ec9fbcd2546eccd7ee

https://github.com/libvips/libvips/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-22

Updated: 2026-02-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 2.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Low

CVSS v4

Base Score: 2

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Low