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Vulnerability · Published Mar 20, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2024-28563

Medium 5.9

In plain English

A medium-severity stack buffer overflow in the freeimage package (Debian). Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. 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)5.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 60.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
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::DwaCompressor::Classifier::Classifier() function when reading images in EXR format.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12freeimageno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2024-28563
Debian:13freeimageno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2024-28563
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSfreeimageno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-28563
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSfreeimageno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-28563
Ubuntu:25.10freeimageno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-28563
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSfreeimageno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-28563
Ubuntu:26.10freeimageno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-28563

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

Weakness: CWE-121 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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