vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3925-1 (CVE-2016-5684): FreeImage vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 6, 2017
Added
Apr 3, 2019
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

It was discovered that an out-of-bounds write vulnerability existed in the XMP
image handling functionality of the FreeImage library. If a user or automated
system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker
could overwrite arbitrary memory, resulting in code execution.

Solutions

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