CVE-2024-28563

5.9 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (5.9) in freeimage project freeimage. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in open source FreeImage v.3.19.0 [r1909] allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) via the Imf_2_2::DwaCompressor::Classifier::Classifier() function when reading images in EXR format.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.9 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-121
Published: 2024-03-20
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

freeimage_project:freeimage

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/3
https://github.com/Ruanxingzhi/vul-report/tree/master/freeimage-r1909
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/10

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