🛡️ CVE-2024-9029
🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-126 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A flaw was found in the freeimage library. Processing a crafted image can cause a buffer over-read of 1 byte in the read_iptc_profile function in the Source/Metadata/IPTC.cpp file because the size of the profile is not being sanitized, causing a crash in the application linked to the library, resulting in a denial of service.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-126
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2024-09-27
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-08-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
freeimage

References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2313704

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