Vulnerability · Published Mar 20, 2024 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2024-28564
Medium 6.2
In plain English
A medium-severity buffer overflow in the freeimage package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 40% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.2Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 60.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | freeimage | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2024-28564 |
| Debian:13 | freeimage | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2024-28564 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | freeimage | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-28564 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | freeimage | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-28564 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | freeimage | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-28564 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | freeimage | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-28564 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | freeimage | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-28564 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-120 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- https://github.com/Ruanxingzhi/vul-report/tree/master/freeimage-r1909
- [oss-security] 20240411 Re: Re: CWE-121, CWE-122: libfreeimage 3.40-3.18/19+ buffer overflow mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20240411 Re: Re: CWE-121, CWE-122: libfreeimage 3.40-3.18/19+ buffer overflow mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20240411 Re: CWE-121, CWE-122: libfreeimage 3.40-3.18/19+ buffer overflow mailing-list