CVE-2016-5684: Freeimage Project Freeimage

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Freeimage Project Freeimage: version 3.17.0 only

Published 2017-01-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.