UBUNTU-CVE-2026-118752
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Summary:
Details: FreeImage through 3.18.0 and the danoli3 FreeImage fork before 3.19.22 contain a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the PBM RLE decoder of PluginIFF.cpp that lacks bounds checks on ByteRun1 runs. Attackers can supply a crafted IFF/LBM PBM file with runs straddling scanline ends to write up to 127 controlled bytes past the heap-allocated bitmap.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-118752, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118752, https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage, https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage/blob/3.19.21/Source/FreeImage/PluginIFF.cpp#L296-L324, https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage/commit/cf173c16354274dc8fb739dc395fc7f32efe7d45, https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage/commit/e1105d3b464b679f0525c6178d9ccf49d55cf712, https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage/issues/156, https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage/pull/161, https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage/releases/tag/3.19.22, https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/freeimage-before-3.19.22-heap-buffer-overflow-via-iff-lbm-pbm-rle-decoder
Affected packages
Package
Name: freeimage
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/freeimage?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
