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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2026-2913 Detail

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)."


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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CNA:  VulDB
CVSS-BT 2.0 LOW
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/E:P

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/ VulDB Product 
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/a56feecbe9ed66521d9647ec9fbcd2546eccd7ee VulDB Patch 
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4857 VulDB Issue Tracking 
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4857#issue-3920154326 VulDB Exploit  Issue Tracking 
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4857#issuecomment-3878479322 VulDB Exploit  Issue Tracking 
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.347222 VulDB Permissions Required  VDB Entry 
https://vuldb.com/?id.347222 VulDB Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://vuldb.com/?submit.755224 VulDB Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer VulDB  
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow VulDB  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-2913
NVD Published Date:
02/21/2026
NVD Last Modified:
02/24/2026
Source:
VulDB