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medium 5.5

CVE-2022-1325 json

A flaw was found in Clmg, where with the help of a maliciously crafted pandore or bmp file with modified dx and dy header field values it i…

published 2022-08-31 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-24653

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 36%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in Clmg, where with the help of a maliciously crafted pandore or bmp file with modified dx and dy header field values it is possible to trick the application into allocating huge buffer sizes like 64 Gigabyte upon reading the file from disk or from a virtual buffer.

Patch / fix

  • cimg cimg 3.1.0
  • cimg Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.1.6+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1325

  • cimg Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 2.9.4+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1325

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-1325 updated cvss 5.5

CImg: Denial of service via RAM exhaustion in _load_bmp

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2074549 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • huntr.dev https://huntr.dev/bounties/a5e4fc45-8f14-4dd1-811b-740fc50c95d2/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/GreycLab/CImg/issues/343 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • n/a Clmg

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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