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CVE-2019-11459

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-04-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-754

Description

The tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail() functions in the TIFF document backend in GNOME Evince through 3.32.0 did not handle errors from TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented(), leading to uninitialized memory use when processing certain TIFF image files.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30
• GNOME Evince: through 3.32.0
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 8.2, 8.4, 8.6

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00089.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3553
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/1129
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00013.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00014.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7LU4YZK5S46TZAH4J3NYYUYFMOC47LJG/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YJ6R7NMY44IHIQIY24CV3WV2GLGJPQPZ/
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/18
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3959-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4624
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00089.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3553

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