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Ubuntu: (CVE-2024-28563): freeimage vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 20, 2024
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in open source FreeImage v.3.19.0 [r1909] allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) via the Imf_2_2::DwaCompressor::Classifier::Classifier() function when reading images in EXR format.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
Title
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