CVE-2019-12211
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6586-1
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
1Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
When FreeImage 3.18.0 reads a tiff file, it will be handed to the Load function of the PluginTIFF.cpp file, but a memcpy occurs in which the destination address and the size of the copied data are not considered, resulting in a heap overflow.
Cuando FreeImage 3.18.0 lee un archivo tiff, se entregará a la función Load del archivo PluginTIFF.cpp, pero aparecerá un memcpy en el que la dirección de destino y el tamaño de los datos copiados no se considerarán, lo que provocará un desbordamiento de pila.
It was discovered that FreeImage incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted TIFF file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause a heap buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It was discovered that FreeImage incorrectly processed images under certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted TIFF file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a stack exhaustion condition, resulting in a denial of service attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2019-05-20 CVE Reserved
- 2019-05-20 CVE Published
- 2024-08-04 CVE Updated
- 2024-08-04 First Exploit
- 2025-07-30 EPSS Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
CWE
- CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
CAPEC
References (8)
| URL | Tag | Source |
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| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00012.html | Mailing List |
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| https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/45 | Mailing List |
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| URL | Date | SRC |
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| https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/discussion/36111/thread/e06734bed5 | 2024-08-04 |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
| Freeimage Project Search vendor "Freeimage Project" | Freeimage Search vendor "Freeimage Project" for product "Freeimage" | 3.18.0 Search vendor "Freeimage Project" for product "Freeimage" and version "3.18.0" | - |
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| Canonical Search vendor "Canonical" | Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" | 18.04 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "18.04" | lts |
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