Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF) 0.3. The Plane function in image/image.hpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (attempted excessive memory allocation) via a crafted file.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-10971
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:01 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF) 0.3. The Plane function in image/image.hpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (attempted excessive memory allocation) via a crafted file.
osv:CVE-2018-10971
Complete source record
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