CVE-2018-7998

Name	CVE-2018-7998
Description	In libvips before 8.6.3, a NULL function pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the vips_region_generate function in region.c, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file. This occurs because of a race condition involving a failed delayed load and other worker threads.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-1306-1
Debian Bugs	892589

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
vips (PTS)	jessie	7.40.6-2	vulnerable
	stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch	8.4.5-1+deb9u2	fixed
	buster	8.7.4-1+deb10u1	fixed
	bullseye	8.10.5-2	fixed
	bookworm	8.14.1-3+deb12u1	fixed
	trixie	8.15.3-1	fixed
	sid	8.16.0-1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
vips	source	wheezy	7.28.5-1+deb7u2		DLA-1306-1
vips	source	stretch	8.4.5-1+deb9u1
vips	source	(unstable)	8.4.5-2	low		892589

Notes

[jessie] - vips <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/commit/20d840e6da15c1574b3ed998bc92f91d1e36c2a5
https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/issues/893