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CVE-2019-12211

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04
• FreeImage: 3.18.0

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00012.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PUWVVP67FYM4GMWD7TPQ7C7JPPRUZHYE/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VZ7KBYPPNRMX7RRWVJSX4T63E3TFB6TG/
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/45
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-02
• https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/discussion/36111/thread/e06734bed5/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4529-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4593
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00012.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PUWVVP67FYM4GMWD7TPQ7C7JPPRUZHYE/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VZ7KBYPPNRMX7RRWVJSX4T63E3TFB6TG/
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/45

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