Several issues have been found in cimg, a powerful image processing library.

CVE-2019-1010174 is related to a missing string sanitization on URLs, which might result in a command injection when loading a special crafted image.

The other CVEs are about heap-based buffer over-reads or double frees when loading an image.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.9+dfsg-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cimg packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update to 2.3.6 release. Fixes CVE-2018-7587, CVE-2018-7588, CVE-2018-7589, CVE-2018-7637, CVE-2018-7638, CVE-2018-7639, CVE-2018-7640, CVE-2018-7641

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in CImg v.220. A heap-based buffer over-read in load_bmp in CImg.h occurs when     loading a crafted bmp image. (CVE-2018-7588)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4039-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that allocation failures could occur in CImg when loading

    crafted bmp images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a

    denial of service. (CVE-2018-7587)

    It was discovered that a heap-based buffer over-read existed in CImg when

    loading crafted bmp images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to

    execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-7588)

    It was discovered that a double free existed in CImg when loading crafted

    bmp images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary

    code. (CVE-2018-7589)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Update to 2.3.6 release Fixes CVE-2018-7587, CVE-2018-7588, CVE-2018-7589, CVE-2018-7637, CVE-2018-7638, CVE-2018-7639, CVE-2018-7640, CVE-2018-7641

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Several issues have been found in cimg, a powerful image processing library.

CVE-2019-1010174 is related to a missing string sanitization on URLs, which might result in a command injection when loading a special crafted image.

The other CVEs are about heap-based buffer over-reads or double frees when loading a crafted image.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.9+dfsg-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cimg packages.

For the detailed security status of cimg please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/cimg

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
129408	Debian DLA-1934-1 : cimg security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	9/30/2019	4/22/2024	critical
120403	Fedora 29 : 1:CImg (2018-4c9e9b82d1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	1/3/2019	7/5/2024	high
259651	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-7588	Nessus	Misc.	8/30/2025	8/30/2025	high
183600	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : CImg vulnerabilities (USN-4039-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	10/20/2023	8/27/2024	high
120252	Fedora 28 : 1:CImg (2018-1735cbc422)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	1/3/2019	7/9/2024	high
142159	Debian DLA-2421-1 : cimg security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	11/2/2020	2/13/2024	critical

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