CVE-2019-11459

moderate-risk

Published 2019-04-22

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.

Do I need to act?

0.44% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 5.5/10 Medium

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Evince

Ubuntu Linux

Fedora

Debian Linux

Enterprise Linux

Enterprise Linux Eus

Enterprise Linux Server Aus

Enterprise Linux Server Tus

Affected Vendors

Debian Redhat Gnome Canonical Fedoraproject Opensuse

References (20)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00089.html

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3553

Patch https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/1129

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00013.html

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00014.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Mailing List https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/18

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3959-1/

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4624