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CVE-2024-28564

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

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 products

• FreeImage: 3.19.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/10
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/3
• https://github.com/Ruanxingzhi/vul-report/tree/master/freeimage-r1909
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/10
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/3
• https://github.com/Ruanxingzhi/vul-report/tree/master/freeimage-r1909

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