UBUNTU-CVE-2025-29769

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-29769
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-29769.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-29769
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Published
2025-04-07T20:15:00Z
Modified
2026-09-14T22:00:29Z
Severity
  • 8.5 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. The heifsave operation could incorrectly determine the presence of an alpha channel in an input when it was not possible to determine the colour interpretation, known internally within libvips as "multiband". There aren't many ways to create a "multiband" input, but it is possible with a well-crafted TIFF image. If a "multiband" TIFF input image had 4 channels and HEIF-based output was requested, this led to libvips creating a 3 channel HEIF image without an alpha channel but then attempting to write 4 channels of data. This caused a heap buffer overflow, which could crash the process. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.16.1.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS / vips

Package

Name
vips
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/vips?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Ffocal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.9.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

Affected versions

8.*
8.7.4-1build1
8.8.3-3
8.8.3-3ubuntu1
8.9.0-1
8.9.0-1build1
8.9.1-1
8.9.1-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-vips-8.0",
            "binary_version": "8.9.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libvips-tools",
            "binary_version": "8.9.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libvips42",
            "binary_version": "8.9.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-29769.json"

Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS / vips

Package

Name
vips
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/vips?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fjammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.12.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2

Affected versions

8.*
8.10.5-2ubuntu1
8.11.4-2
8.12.1-1
8.12.1-1build1
8.12.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-vips-8.0",
            "binary_version": "8.12.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libvips-tools",
            "binary_version": "8.12.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libvips42",
            "binary_version": "8.12.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-29769.json"

Ubuntu:Pro:24.04:LTS / vips

Package

Name
vips
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/vips?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fnoble

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.15.1-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Affected versions

8.*
8.14.3-1
8.14.5-1
8.15.0-1
8.15.0-2
8.15.1-1
8.15.1-1build1
8.15.1-1.1build3
8.15.1-1.1build4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-vips-8.0",
            "binary_version": "8.15.1-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libvips-tools",
            "binary_version": "8.15.1-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libvips42t64",
            "binary_version": "8.15.1-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-29769.json"

Ubuntu:25.10 / vips

Package

Name
vips
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/vips?arch=source&distro=questing

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

8.*
8.16.0-2build1
8.16.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-vips-8.0",
            "binary_version": "8.16.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libvips-tools",
            "binary_version": "8.16.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libvips42t64",
            "binary_version": "8.16.1-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-29769.json"

Ubuntu:Pro:26.04:LTS / vips

Package

Name
vips
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/vips?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fresolute

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.18.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Affected versions

8.*
8.16.1-1
8.16.1-2
8.17.3-2
8.18.0-1
8.18.0-1build1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-vips-8.0",
            "binary_version": "8.18.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libvips-tools",
            "binary_version": "8.18.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libvips42t64",
            "binary_version": "8.18.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-29769.json"