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CVE-2019-12979

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-665

Description

ImageMagick 7.0.8-34 has a "use of uninitialized value" vulnerability in the SyncImageSettings function in MagickCore/image.c. This is related to AcquireImage in magick/image.c.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10
• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
• ImageMagick: 7.0.8-34
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00069.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108913
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1522
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4192-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4712
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00069.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108913
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1522
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4192-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4712

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