CVE-2019-12211

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 7
Modified
Published: 20 May 2019, 15:05
Last modified:04 Aug 2024, 23:17

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
40/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
1.03% LOW
1% probability -0.02%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

20 May 2019, 15:05
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Aug 2024, 23:17
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.03%• Percentile: 77%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-787•Out-of-bounds Write

    The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    18.04

  • freeimage_project•freeimage

    3.18.0

References (8)