# CVE-2026-35590: Possible out-of-bounds read leading to crash when decoding well-crafted EXIF metadata

- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-20 · Updated: 2026-07-20

## Affected

- libvips: through 8.18.1

## Description

libvips is a fast image processing library with low memory needs. The EXIF decoder within libvips versions before and including 8.18.1 was not verifying the range of EXIF tag groups before passing data to libexif, leading to a possible null pointer dereference and crash. This has been patched in version 8.18.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on libvips, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/security/advisories/GHSA-jmwm-wc68-mhwm
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/4972
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/91ebd4d35341a8353ea490392d556d582e4b846f

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