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The attack needs to be launched locally.\n(CVE-2026-3145)\nA vulnerability has been found in libvips up to 8.18.0. The impacted\nelement is the function vips_foreign_load_matrix_header of the file\nlibvips/foreign/matrixload.c. The manipulation leads to null pointer\ndereference. The attack needs to be performed locally. (CVE-2026-3146)\nA vulnerability was found in libvips up to 8.18.0. This affects the\nfunction vips_foreign_load_csv_build of the file\nlibvips/foreign/csvload.c. The manipulation results in heap-based buffer\noverflow. The attack requires a local approach. The exploit has been\nmade public and could be used. (CVE-2026-3147)\nA security vulnerability has been detected in libvips up to 8.18.2. The\naffected element is the function im_minpos_vec of the file\nlibvips/deprecated/vips7compat.c of the component nip2 Handler. Such\nmanipulation of the argument n leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An\nattack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed\npublicly and may be used. (CVE-2026-6491)\n","status":"published","published":"2026-07-08T16:36:03Z","modified":"2026-07-08T16:45:04.93778666Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:43.795591Z"}]}}