CVE-2019-12211 describes a heap overflow vulnerability in FreeImage 3.18.0, specifically impacting its TIFF file parsing functionality, and affecting products like canonical freeimage and freeimage_project freeimage. The vulnerability, rated 7.5 HIGH, allows for remote unauthenticated attacks leading to high availability impact due to improper handling of memory during memcpy operations. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.18.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freeimage_project:freeimage:3.18.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.