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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-11459: evince uninitialized memory use in function tiff_document_render

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-11459: evince uninitialized memory use in function tiff_document_render

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/22/2019
Created
07/10/2019
Added
07/10/2019
Modified
02/18/2020

Description

The tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail() functions in the TIFF document backend in GNOME Evince through 3.32.0 did not handle errors from TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented(), leading to uninitialized memory use when processing certain TIFF image files.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-evince

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