7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2016-5684

Published: 06/01/2017 Updated: 28/03/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

It exists that an out-of-bounds write vulnerability existed in the XMP image handling functionality of the FreeImage library. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could overwrite arbitrary memory, resulting in code execution.

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Vendor Advisories

FreeImage could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file ...
Debian Bug report logs - #839827 freeimage: CVE-2016-5684 Package: src:freeimage; Maintainer for src:freeimage is Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 13:09:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security, u ...
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the FreeImage multimedia library, which might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed XMP or RAW image is processed For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 3154-42+deb8u1 For the testing distribution (stretch), these proble ...