PT-2019-5231 · Freeimage+2 · Freeimage+2

Taolaw · Published 2019-05-20 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2019-12213

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeImage version 3.18.0

Description The issue is related to the TIFFReadDirectory function in PluginTIFF.cpp, which always returns 1 when reading a special TIFF file, leading to stack exhaustion. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

Recommendations For FreeImage version 3.18.0, consider disabling the TIFFReadDirectory function in PluginTIFF.cpp as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict access to the PluginTIFF.cpp module to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Resource Exhaustion

Uncontrolled Recursion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

CWE-674

Related Identifiers

BDU:2020-01974

CVE-2019-12213

DLA-2031-1

DSA-4593-1

MGASA-2020-0019

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10766-1

USN-4529-1

USN-6586-1

Affected Products

Freeimage

Linuxmint

Ubuntu

References · 39

• 🔥 https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/discussion/36111/thread/e06734bed5 · Exploit
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PUWVVP67FYM4GMWD7TPQ7C7JPPRUZHYE · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-2031-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/message/PUWVVP67FYM4GMWD7TPQ7C7JPPRUZHYE · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4529-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12213 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12213 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0019.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-6586-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-12213 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-12213 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10766-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-4529-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6586-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-02 · Vendor Advisory