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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3692-1 freeimage -- security update

Date Reported:

13 Oct 2016

Affected Packages:

freeimage

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-3885, CVE-2016-5684.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the FreeImage multimedia library, which might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed XMP or RAW image is processed.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 3.15.4-4.2+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 3.17.0+ds1-3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.17.0+ds1-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your freeimage packages.