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:

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.