{"id":"MGASA-2024-0244","summary":"Updated python-imageio packages fix security vulnerability","details":"imageio can attempt to download shared freeimage libraries from\nhttps://github.com/imageio/imageio-binaries/tree/master/freeimage. The\ncode fetches straight from master and provides no way of verifying\nwhether the correct file was fetched. As a result, if the repository is\nattacked in the future, all prior versions of imageio would be silently\ndownloading arbitrary shared libraries and running them on user systems.\nThis is a serious problem.\n","modified":"2026-04-16T04:21:00.537473Z","published":"2024-07-01T17:53:27Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0244.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31016"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"python-imageio","ecosystem":"Mageia:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/python-imageio?arch=source&distro=mageia-9"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.22.4-1.1.mga9"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0244.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}