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Debian 7: DLA-1306-1 Critical: Vips NULL Pointer Denial of Service

debian lts
Calendar Grey March 11, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
A critical security notice has been issued by VIPS concerning a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that poses a potential risk of denial of service for users of Debian 7.
It was discovered that there was NULL function pointer dereference vulnerability in vips, an image processing system for very large images
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Summary

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in vips version
7.28.5-1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your vips packages.


Regards,

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Package: vips
Version: 7.28.5-1+deb7u2
CVE ID: CVE-2018-7998
Debian Bug: #892589

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