CVE-2026-118752

CVSS 8.5 (high) · published 2026-10-28

FreeImage through 3.18.0 and the danoli3 FreeImage fork before 3.19.22 contain a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the PBM RLE decoder of PluginIFF.cpp that lacks bounds checks on ByteRun1 runs. Attackers can supply a crafted IFF/LBM PBM file with runs straddling scanline ends to write up to 127 controlled bytes past the heap-allocated bitmap.

Weakness: CWE-787

Source: NVD CVE-2026-118752

References

• https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage
• https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage/blob/3.19.21/Source/FreeImage/PluginIFF.cpp#L296-L324
• https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage/commit/cf173c16354274dc8fb739dc395fc7f32efe7d45
• https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage/commit/e1105d3b464b679f0525c6178d9ccf49d55cf712
• https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage/issues/156
• https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage/pull/161
• https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage/pull/244
• https://github.com/danoli3/FreeImage/releases/tag/3.19.22
• https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/patches/198/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeimage/

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