CVE-2019-12211

HIGH

FreeImage 3.18.0 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/discussion/36111/thread/e06734bed5/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00012.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4593
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/45
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-02
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4529-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0103
EPSS Percentile 77.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (2)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
freeimage_project/freeimage 3.18.0
Published May 20, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026