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high 8.8

CVE-2019-17534 json

vips_foreign_load_gif_scan_image in foreign/gifload.c in libvips before 8.8.2 tries to access a color map before a DGifGetImageDesc call, l…

published 2019-10-13 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-7884

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

vips_foreign_load_gif_scan_image in foreign/gifload.c in libvips before 8.8.2 tries to access a color map before a DGifGetImageDesc call, leading to a use-after-free.

Patch / fix

  • libvips libvips 8.8.2
  • vips openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.18.7-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12266-1

  • vips Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +7 more 8.8.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-17534

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-17534 updated cvss 4.8

vips: use-after-free in vips_foreign_load_gif_scan_image in foreign/gifload.c

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.chromium.org https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16796 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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