Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3392-1 freeimage -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 04 Nov 2015
- Affected Packages:
- freeimage
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 797165.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-0852. - More information:
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Pengsu Cheng discovered that FreeImage, a library for graphic image formats, contained multiple integer underflows that could lead to a denial of service: remote attackers were able to trigger a crash by supplying a specially crafted image.
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.15.1-1.1.
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.15.4-4.2.
For the testing distribution (stretch) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.15.4-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your freeimage packages.