🛡️ CVE-2024-28577 — freeimage

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-476 NVD

5.5

CVSS Score

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Description

Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability in open source FreeImage v.3.19.0 [r1909] allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) via the jpeg_read_exif_profile_raw() function when reading images in JPEG format.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-28577 is classified as CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference. A pointer that can be null is used without a check, crashing the process.

Affected software

CVE-2024-28577 is recorded against 1 package.

freeimage

Timeline and source

Published on 20 March 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com

CVE-2024-28577 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Debian Ubuntu

Details

Severity MEDIUM

CVSS Score 5.5

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE CWE-476

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2024-03-20

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
freeimage	—	—

References

Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/Ruanxingzhi/vul-report/tree/master/freeimage-r1909

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