CVE-2016-5684

7.8 highEPSS 1.8%

High (7.8) in freeimage project freeimage. EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the XMP image handling functionality of the FreeImage library. A specially crafted XMP file can cause an arbitrary memory overwrite resulting in code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious image to trigger this vulnerability.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 78% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2017-01-06
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

freeimage_project:freeimage

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93287
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0189/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-68
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3925-1/
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html

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