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CVE-2019-12213
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2019-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-674
Description
When FreeImage 3.18.0 reads a special TIFF file, the TIFFReadDirectory function in PluginTIFF.cpp always returns 1, leading to stack exhaustion.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04
- Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31
- 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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