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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2019-12214: freeimage -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 20, 2019
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In FreeImage 3.18.0, an out-of-bounds access occurs because of mishandling of the OpenJPEG j2k_read_ppm_v3 function in j2k.c. The value of l_N_ppm comes from the file read in, and the code does not consider that l_N_ppm may be greater than the size of p_header_data.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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