CVE-2016-5684 (GCVE-0-2016-5684)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-06 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:08
VLAI
Summary
An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the XMP image handling functionality of the FreeImage library. A specially crafted XMP file can cause an arbitrary memory overwrite resulting in code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious image to trigger this vulnerability.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • out-of-bounds write
Assigner
certcc CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 42/100 over 166 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-20… x_refsource_MISC
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advis… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93287 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-68 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3925-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
FreeImage FreeImage Affected: 3.17.0
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Date Public
2016-10-03 00:00
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