Out-of-bounds read in FreeImage - CVE-2021-33367

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Out-of-bounds read in FreeImage - CVE-2021-33367

Published: August 20, 2023 / Updated: August 29, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU79716
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33367
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when handling JXR files. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, pass it to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

FreeImage
openEuler
Fedora
freeimage
freeimage-devel
mingw-freeimage

How to mitigate CVE-2021-33367

Install update from vendor's SVN.

freeimage - update to 3.18.0-7
freeimage-devel - update to 3.18.0-7
mingw-freeimage - addressed in versions 3.19.0-0.14.svn1889.fc36, 3.19.0-0.14.svn1889.fc37, 3.19.0-0.14.svn1889.fc38
freeimage - addressed in versions 3.19.0-0.16.svn1889.fc37, 3.19.0-0.16.svn1889.fc38

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