CVE-2026-6491

Medium CVSS: 4.8

A security vulnerability has been detected in libvips up to 8.18.2. The affected element is the function im_minpos_vec of the file libvips/deprecated/vips7compat.c of the component nip2 Handler. Such manipulation of the argument n leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The vendor confirms that they will "be removing the deprecated area in libvips 8.19".

Vendor

Product

CWE

CWE-119

Yayın Tarihi

2026-04-17 14:16:35

Güncelleme

2026-04-17 14:16:35

Source Identifier

cna@vuldb.com

KEV Date Added

Kategoriler

CWE-119 MEDIUM 2026

Referanslar

https://github.com/biniamf/pocs/tree/main/libvips_im_minpos_vec_oob https://github.com/libvips/libvips/ https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4965 https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4965#issuecomment-4135003499 https://vuldb.com/submit/786994 https://vuldb.com/vuln/358035 https://vuldb.com/vuln/358035/cti