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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-11459: evince: uninitialized memory use in function tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail()

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-11459: evince: uninitialized memory use in function tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail()

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/22/2019
Created
12/30/2020
Added
12/29/2020
Modified
05/10/2023

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)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

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