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Fedora 39: 2024-5c3c77b8eb Critical: vips Segfault 8.15.1 Fix

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Calendar Grey January 29, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest update of VIPS 8.15.1 for Fedora 39 resolves CVE-2023-40032, introducing critical security enhancements and fixes.
Update to 8.15.1, security fix for CVE-2023-40032

Summary

VIPS is an image processing library. It is good for very large images

(even larger than the amount of RAM in your machine), and for working

with color.

This package should be installed if you want to use a program compiled

against VIPS.

Update Information:

Update to 8.15.1, security fix for CVE-2023-40032

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix segfault image processing C/C++ library

Change Log

* Sat Jan 20 2024 Kleis Auke Wolthuizen - 8.15.1-1 - Update to 8.15.1 Resolves: rhbz#2098477 Resolves: rhbz#2238469 (CVE-2023-40032) - Use libhwy in favor of liborc - Use libarchive in favor of libgsf

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2098477 - vips-8.15.1 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2098477 [ 2 ] Bug #2238469 - CVE-2023-40032 nip2: libvips: specially crafted SVG input can cause libvips to segfault when attempting to parse a malformed UTF-8 character [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238469

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-5c3c77b8eb' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: vips
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 8.15.1
Release: 1.fc39
URL: https://www.libvips.org/
Summary: C/C++ library for processing large images

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix segfault image processing C/C++ library

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