Bug#1055305: freeimage: CVE-2021-40266

[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-2021-40266[0]:
| FreeImage before 1.18.0, ReadPalette function in PluginTIFF.cpp is
| vulnerabile to null pointer dereference.

https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/bugs/334/

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-2021-40266
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40266

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.