CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5684
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• freeimage project freeimage 3.17.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93287 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0189/ Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-68 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3925-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93287 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0189/ Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-68 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3925-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html www.oracle.com