Multiple integer underflows in PluginPCX.cpp in FreeImage 3.17.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors related to the height and width of a window.

• https://github.com/kmx/alien-freeimage/issues/5
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167766.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/28/1
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797165
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3392
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172491.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172583.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034077
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168000.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168023.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-68
• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html

Alien::FreeImage versions through 1.001 for Perl contains several vulnerable libraries. Alien::FreeImage contains version 3.17.0 of the FreeImage library from 2017, which has known vulnerabilities such as CVE-2015-0852 and CVE-2025-65803. The library embeds other images libraries that also have known vulnerabilities.

• https://freeimage.sourceforge.io/
• https://metacpan.org/release/KMX/Alien-FreeImage-1.001/source/src/Source
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0852
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-65803
• https://github.com/kmx/alien-freeimage/issues/4
• https://github.com/kmx/alien-freeimage/issues/5