CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-9029
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-09-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-126
Description
A flaw was found in the freeimage library. Processing a crafted image can cause a buffer over-read of 1 byte in the read_iptc_profile function in the Source/Metadata/IPTC.cpp file because the size of the profile is not being sanitized, causing a crash in the application linked to the library, resulting in a denial of service.
Affected configurations
• freeimage project freeimage
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-126 Buffer Over-read weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2313704 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/bugs/351/ Exploit, Issue Tracking