CVE-2023-40032 Potential segfault due to NULL pointer dereference in libvips
Medium 5.5
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-40032 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2023-40032 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 11 Sep 2023.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-40032 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Fedoraproject Fedora. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40032/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40032/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2023-40032?
CVE-2023-40032 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 11 Sep 2023.
Official description
libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. A specially crafted SVG input can cause libvips versions 8.14.3 or earlier to segfault when attempting to parse a malformed UTF-8 character. Users should upgrade to libvips version 8.14.4 (or later) when processing untrusted input.
Weakness: CWE-476
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-40032?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Libvips Libvips.
How do I fix CVE-2023-40032?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2023-40032 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-40032 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2023-40032, GHSA-33qp-9pq7-9584, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-40032.