Ubuntu USN-8994-1 fixes nine libvips vulnerabilities in image processing
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What happened
A widely used image processing library called libvips has nine newly disclosed flaws. Malicious image files could crash software that uses it, and some flaws might let an attacker run their own code or see sensitive data.
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What to do
- Apply the libvips package updates for your Ubuntu release as described in USN-8994-1.
- Prioritise hosts that process untrusted PDF, TIFF, GIF, PPM or EXIF images with libvips.
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