Vulnerability · Published Mar 20, 2024 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2024-28565
Medium 5.5
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 0.4% (higher than 38% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 62.1% 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 psdParser::ReadImageData() function when reading images in PSD format.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | freeimage | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2024-28565 |
| Debian:13 | freeimage | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2024-28565 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | freeimage | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-28565 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | freeimage | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-28565 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | freeimage | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-28565 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | freeimage | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-28565 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | freeimage | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-28565 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-120 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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