FKIE_CVE-2022-4988

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-11 20:19 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:22
Severity
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
Alien::FreeImage versions through 1.001 for Perl contains several vulnerable libraries. Alien::FreeImage contains version 3.17.0 of the FreeImage library from 2017, which has known vulnerabilities such as CVE-2015-0852 and CVE-2025-65803. The library embeds other images libraries that also have known vulnerabilities.
References
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://freeimage.sourceforge.io/
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://github.com/kmx/alien-freeimage/issues/4
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://github.com/kmx/alien-freeimage/issues/5
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://metacpan.org/release/KMX/Alien-FreeImage-1.001/source/src/Source
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0852
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-65803
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T05:22:30.943",
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