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CVE-2019-12212

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-674

Description

When FreeImage 3.18.0 reads a special JXR file, the StreamCalcIFDSize function of JXRMeta.c repeatedly calls itself due to improper processing of the file, eventually causing stack exhaustion. An attacker can achieve a remote denial of service attack by sending a specially constructed file.

Affected products

• FreeImage: 3.18.0

References

• https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/discussion/36111/thread/e06734bed5/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/discussion/36111/thread/e06734bed5/

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