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.
References
| Link | Resource |
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| https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/9ab6784f693de50b00fa535b9efbbe9d2cbf71f2 | Patch |
| https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/4392 | Issue Tracking |
| https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/4394 | Issue Tracking |
| https://github.com/libvips/libvips/security/advisories/GHSA-f8r8-43hh-rghm | Patch Vendor Advisory |
| https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues/396460413 | Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00044.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
History
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| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| References | () https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/9ab6784f693de50b00fa535b9efbbe9d2cbf71f2 - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/4392 - Issue Tracking | |
| References | () https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/4394 - Issue Tracking | |
| References | () https://github.com/libvips/libvips/security/advisories/GHSA-f8r8-43hh-rghm - Patch, Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues/396460413 - Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory | |
| References | () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00044.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory | |
| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:libvips:libvips:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Libvips
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Information
Published : 2025-04-07 20:15
Updated : 2025-10-09 13:41
NVD link : CVE-2025-29769
Mitre link : CVE-2025-29769
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-29769
JSON object : View
Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
libvips
- libvips
CWE
CWE-122
Heap-based Buffer Overflow
