CVE-2021-40264

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2021-40264 · Published 22/08/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-40264 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting freeimage (freeimage project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.73%, higher than 54.3% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.18.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
freeimage freeimage_project	`< 1.18.0`	`1.18.0`

NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in FreeImage before 1.18.0 via the FreeImage_CloneTag function inFreeImageTag.cpp.

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