Integer underflow in FreeImage - CVE-2015-0852

 

Integer underflow in FreeImage - CVE-2015-0852

Published: August 29, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU80084
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0852
CWE-ID: CWE-191
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 integer underflow in PluginPCX.cpp. A remote attacker can trigger an integer underflow and crash the application.


Affected software

FreeImage
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
freeimage
media-libs/freeimage
mingw-freeimage

How to mitigate CVE-2015-0852

Install updates from vendor's website.

FreeImage - update to 3.18.0
freeimage - addressed in versions 3.10.0-23.fc21, 3.10.0-23.fc22, 3.17.0-1.fc23
media-libs/freeimage - update to 3.15.4-r1
mingw-freeimage - addressed in versions 3.15.4-6.fc22, 3.17.0-1.fc23

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