FKIE_CVE-2016-5684

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-01-06 21:59 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the XMP image handling functionality of the FreeImage library. A specially crafted XMP file can cause an arbitrary memory overwrite resulting in code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious image to trigger this vulnerability.
References
cret@cert.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93287
cret@cert.orghttp://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0189/Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
cret@cert.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-68
cret@cert.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3925-1/
cret@cert.orghttps://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93287
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0189/Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-68
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3925-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
freeimage_project freeimage 3.17.0
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