Bug#1055301: freeimage: CVE-2021-40262

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: freeimage
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for freeimage.

CVE-2021-40262[0]:
| A stack exhaustion issue was discovered in FreeImage before 1.18.0
| via the Validate function in PluginRAW.cpp.

https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/bugs/338/


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-40262
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40262

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.