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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-12211): FreeImage vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-12211): FreeImage vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/20/2019
Created
09/24/2020
Added
09/23/2020
Modified
01/17/2024

Description

When FreeImage 3.18.0 reads a tiff file, it will be handed to the Load function of the PluginTIFF.cpp file, but a memcpy occurs in which the destination address and the size of the copied data are not considered, resulting in a heap overflow.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfreeimage-dev
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfreeimage3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfreeimageplus-dev
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfreeimageplus3

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