CVE-2019-12979 — Improper Initialization in Imagemagick

CWE-665 — Improper InitializationCWE-456 — Missing Initialization of a Variable9 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 57.12%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
ImagemagickDebian ImagemagickCanonical Ubuntu Linux+2 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 26
Latest updateSep 4

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/imagemagick< imagemagick 8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianimagemagick/imagemagick< 8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1+3
▶NVDopensuse/leap15.0, 15.1+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-jj5g-76c5-rx7v: ImageMagick 7↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2019-12979: ImageMagick 7↗2019-06-26
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities↗2024-09-04
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Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities↗2019-11-14
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Red Hat
imagemagick: use of uninitialized value in functionSyncImageSettings in MagickCore/image.c↗2019-06-26
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Debian
CVE-2019-12979: imagemagick - ImageMagick 7.0.8-34 has a "use of uninitialized value" vulnerability in the Syn...↗2019
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-12979 ImageMagick: use of uninitialized value in functionSyncImageSettings in MagickCore/image.c [fedora-all]↗2019-07-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-12979 imagemagick: use of uninitialized value in functionSyncImageSettings in MagickCore/image.c↗2019-07-23
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