CVE-2024-28564

MEDIUM 6.2CVE-2024-28564 · Published 20/03/2024 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2024-28564 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.2) vulnerability affecting freeimage (freeimage project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.46%, higher than 39.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
freeimage freeimage_project	`= 3.19.0`	No fix yet

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::CharPtrIO::readChars() function when reading images in EXR format.

References

openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/10 · Mailing List
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/2 · Mailing List
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/3 · Mailing List
Ruanxingzhi/vul-report · Exploit

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

freeimage

freeimage_project

= 3.19.0

No fix yet

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