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CVE-2024-9029: Freeimage: heap buffer overflow in tiff_read_iptc_profile

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2024-09-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-126

Description

A flaw was found in the freeimage library. Processing a crafted image can cause a buffer over-read of 1 byte in the read_iptc_profile function in the Source/Metadata/IPTC.cpp file because the size of the profile is not being sanitized, causing a crash in the application linked to the library, resulting in a denial of service.

Affected products

• FreeImage: all versions

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2313704
• https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/bugs/351/

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