CVE-2019-12213

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
36/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.33% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
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 special TIFF file, the TIFFReadDirectory function in PluginTIFF.cpp always returns 1, leading to stack exhaustion.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.33%• Percentile: 56%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-674•Uncontrolled Recursion

    The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    18.04

  • debian•debian_linux

    8.0 | 9.0 | 10.0

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    30 | 31

  • freeimage_project•freeimage

    3.18.0

References (8)