cve-2020-21427
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-22 00:00
Modified
2025-05-05 12:50
Summary
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in function LoadPixelDataRLE8 in PluginBMP.cpp in FreeImage 3.18.0 allows remote attackers to run arbitrary code and cause other impacts via crafted image file.
Impacted products
n/an/a
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