CVE-2019-12213 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Project Freeimage

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion13 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 43.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Freeimage Project FreeimageCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedMay 20
Latest updateJan 16

Description

When FreeImage 3.18.0 reads a special TIFF file, the TIFFReadDirectory function in PluginTIFF.cpp always returns 1, leading to stack exhaustion.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianfreeimage_project/freeimage< 3.18.0+ds2-3+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 8.0, 9.0, Fedora 30, 31, Ubuntu Linux 18.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
OSV
freeimage vulnerabilities↗2024-01-16
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GHSA
GHSA-32gm-g888-8wvj: When FreeImage 3↗2022-05-24
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OSV
freeimage vulnerabilities↗2020-09-22
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CVEList
CVE-2019-12213: When FreeImage 3↗2019-05-20
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OSV
CVE-2019-12213: When FreeImage 3↗2019-05-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
FreeImage vulnerabilities↗2024-01-16
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Ubuntu
FreeImage vulnerabilities↗2020-09-22
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Debian
CVE-2019-12213: freeimage - When FreeImage 3.18.0 reads a special TIFF file, the TIFFReadDirectory function ...↗2019
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-12213 freeimage: stack exhaustion in function TIFFReadDirectory in PluginTIFF.cpp↗2019-07-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-12213 freeimage: stack exhaustion in function TIFFReadDirectory in PluginTIFF.cpp [epel-all]↗2019-07-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-12213 mingw-freeimage: freeimage: stack exhaustion in function TIFFReadDirectory in PluginTIFF.cpp [fedora-all]↗2019-07-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-12213 freeimage: stack exhaustion in function TIFFReadDirectory in PluginTIFF.cpp [fedora-all]↗2019-07-23
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CVE-2019-12213 — Uncontrolled Recursion | cvebase