Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title FreeImage: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201701-68 First vendor Publication 2017-01-29
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-01-29
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in FreeImage, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code

Background

FreeImage is an Open Source library project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by today's multimedia applications.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in in FreeImage. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker, by enticing a user to process a specially crafted image file, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All FreeImage users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/freeimage-3.15.4-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-0852 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0852
[ 2 ] CVE-2016-5684 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5684

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-68

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201701-68.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
50 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2016-08-17 FreeImage library XPM handling out of bounds write attempt
RuleID : 39884 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-IMAGE
2016-08-17 FreeImage library XPM handling out of bounds write attempt
RuleID : 39883 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-IMAGE

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-04-16 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_5b1631dceafd11e69ac1a4badb2f4699.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-01-30 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-68.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-f55f5b10dc.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-4247f42b66.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3692.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-13 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-4529e034ca.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-13 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-d07987265b.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-13 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-cca868c95f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-13 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-5cbcad7a9a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-04 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-decbab7c9f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-04 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-992342e82f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-15 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_33459061a1d611e58794bcaec565249c.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-05 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3392.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-10-19 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-327.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-10-02 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-16105.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-10-02 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-16104.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-28 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-16106.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-01-31 13:26:20
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-29 21:23:33
  • First insertion