CVE-2019-12213

MEDIUM

FreeImage 3.18.0 - Denial of Service via TIFFReadDirectory Stack Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

When FreeImage 3.18.0 reads a special TIFF file, the TIFFReadDirectory function in PluginTIFF.cpp always returns 1, leading to stack exhaustion.

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_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4529-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-02

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0033
EPSS Percentile 56.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-674
Status published
Products (7)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
fedoraproject/fedora 30
fedoraproject/fedora 31
freeimage_project/freeimage 3.18.0
Published May 20, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026