Bug#1055302: freeimage: CVE-2021-40263

[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-2021-40263[0]:
| A heap overflow vulnerability in FreeImage 1.18.0 via the ofLoad
| function in PluginTIFF.cpp.

https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/bugs/336/

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-2021-40263
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40263

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.