PT-2020-15278 · Libvips+3 · Libvips+3

Yifengchen-Cc · Published 2020-01-26 · Updated 2025-01-17 · CVE-2020-20739

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libvips versions prior to 8.8.2

Description The issue is related to an uninitialized variable in the im vips2dz function, located in /libvips/libvips/deprecated/im vips2dz.c. This may cause the leakage of the remote server path or stack address.

Recommendations For versions prior to 8.8.2, update to version 8.8.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the im vips2dz function in /libvips/libvips/deprecated/im vips2dz.c until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-909

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-1098

ALT-PU-2020-2977

ALT-PU-2025-1396

CVE-2020-20739

DLA-2473-1

USN-6437-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Linuxmint

Ubuntu

Libvips

References · 20

• 🔥 https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/1419 · Exploit
• https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/2ab5aa7bf515135c2b02d42e9a72e4c98e17031a · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-20739 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-40032 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6437-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-20739 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-20739 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-6437-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-27847 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-6976 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZULVPQQ4QDFSQCXFYBUXEM7UXJAOKLSP · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-20739 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-20739 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-2473-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-20739 · Security Note