Medium
freeimage — security advisory
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.
- Products
- freeimage
- Affected versions
- 3.18.0+ds2-10, 3.18.0+ds2-11, 3.18.0+ds2-9, 3.18.0+ds2-9+deb12u1, 3.18.0+ds2-9.1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-28577
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 12:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2024-28577
freeimage
Fixed versions: Not specified
freeimage
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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