CVE-2016-5684
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-06 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:08
Severity ?
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
FreeImage FreeImage Version: 3.17.0
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