glsa-201701-68.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201701-68">
  <title>FreeImage: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in FreeImage, the worst of
    which may allow execution of arbitrary code
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">freeimage</product>
  <announced>2017-01-29</announced>
  <revised>2017-01-29: 1</revised>
  <bug>559006</bug>
  <bug>596350</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-libs/freeimage" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.15.4-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.15.4-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>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.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in in FreeImage. Please
      review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>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.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All FreeImage users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-libs/freeimage-3.15.4-r1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0852">CVE-2015-0852</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5684">CVE-2016-5684</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-01-23T08:24:46Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-01-29T16:12:52Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>