CVE-2026-35590

Name	CVE-2026-35590
Description	libvips is a fast image processing library with low memory needs. The EXIF decoder within libvips versions before and including 8.18.1 was not verifying the range of EXIF tag groups before passing data to libexif, leading to a possible null pointer dereference and crash. This has been patched in version 8.18.2.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
vips (PTS)	bullseye	8.10.5-2	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	8.10.5-2+deb11u1	vulnerable
	bookworm	8.14.1-3+deb12u3	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	8.14.1-3+deb12u2	vulnerable
	trixie	8.16.1-1+deb13u1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	8.18.4-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
vips	source	(unstable)	8.18.2-1

Notes

https://github.com/libvips/libvips/security/advisories/GHSA-jmwm-wc68-mhwm
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/4972
Fixed by: https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/91ebd4d35341a8353ea490392d556d582e4b846f (v8.18.2)