{"id":"USN-3925-1","summary":"freeimage vulnerability","details":"It was discovered that an out-of-bounds write vulnerability existed in the XMP\nimage handling functionality of the FreeImage library. If a user or automated\nsystem were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker\ncould overwrite arbitrary memory, resulting in code execution.\n","modified":"2026-04-22T09:54:56.598072Z","published":"2019-03-28T17:55:54Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5684"],"upstream":["CVE-2016-5684","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5684"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3925-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5684"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"freeimage","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/freeimage@3.15.4-3ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.15.4-3ubuntu0.1"}]}],"versions":["3.15.1-2build1","3.15.1-2build2","3.15.4-2","3.15.4-3"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libfreeimage3","binary_version":"3.15.4-3ubuntu0.1"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","cves":[{"severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}],"id":"CVE-2016-5684"}]},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3925-1.json"}},{"package":{"name":"freeimage","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/freeimage@3.17.0+ds1-2ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.17.0+ds1-2ubuntu0.1"}]}],"versions":["3.15.4-4.1build1","3.15.4-6","3.17.0+ds1-1.1","3.17.0+ds1-2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libfreeimage3","binary_version":"3.17.0+ds1-2ubuntu0.1"},{"binary_name":"libfreeimageplus3","binary_version":"3.17.0+ds1-2ubuntu0.1"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","cves":[{"severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}],"id":"CVE-2016-5684"}]},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3925-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}