Fedora 42: Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in vips 8.17.3 Alert
fedora
December 18, 2025
New version of vips.
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:
New version of vips.
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Tue Dec 9 2025 Adam Goode
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2401081 - CVE-2025-59933 vips: libvips Buffer Over-Read [fedora-42]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2401081
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-107641b428' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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Name: vips
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 8.17.3
Release: 1.fc42
Summary: C/C++ library for processing large images
Topics Covered
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