Bug#1055303: freeimage: CVE-2021-40264

[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-2021-40264[0]:
| NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in FreeImage before 1.18.0
| via the FreeImage_CloneTag function inFreeImageTag.cpp.

https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/bugs/335/

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-2021-40264
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40264

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.