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high 7.5

CVE-2019-12211 json

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 th…

published 2019-05-20 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-3856

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.2%
EPSS 4.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • freeimage Debian 13, Debian 12 3.18.0+ds2-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12211

  • freeimage Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 3.17.0+ds1-5+deb9u1build0.18.04.1
  • freeimage Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 3.18.0+ds2-1ubuntu3.1
  • freeimage Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 3.15.4-3ubuntu0.1+esm2
  • freeimage Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 3.17.0+ds1-2ubuntu0.1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12211

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • freeimage openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.18.0-4.4

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10766-1

  • freeimage Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +11 more 3.18.0-r2

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-12211

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-12211 updated cvss 5.9

freeimage: heap-based buffer overflow in PluginTIFF.cpp

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/discussion/36111/thread/e06734bed5/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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