CVE-2016-5684

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5684
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5684.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5684
Downstream
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Published
2017-01-06T21:59:01.727Z
Modified
2026-03-10T14:07:18.296717Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the XMP image handling functionality of the FreeImage library. A specially crafted XMP file can cause an arbitrary memory overwrite resulting in code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious image to trigger this vulnerability.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.17.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5684.json"