🛡️ CVE-2026-33327 on Debian — vips

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

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Description

libvips is a fast image processing library with low memory needs. The vipsload operation in versions before and including 8.18.0 could incorrectly determine image dimensions leading to an integer overflow and a subsequent heap-based buffer overflow. This has been patched in version 8.18.1.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-33327 as tracked by Debian, for the package vips. The fix is available in version 8.18.1-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33327 is classified as CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Arithmetic produces a value too large for its type and wraps around, so a later size or bounds check passes when it should not.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33327 is recorded against 1 package.

vips (fixed in 8.18.1-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 20 July 2026 and last revised on 20 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2026-07-20

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-08-20

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
vips	—	8.18.1-1

References

ADVISORY https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-33327

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