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Use of Uninitialized Resource

CVE-2019-6976

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

libvips before 8.7.4 generates output images from uninitialized memory locations when processing corrupted input image data because iofuncs/memory.c does not zero out allocated memory. This can result in leaking raw process memory contents through the output image.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource

The software uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published