CVE-2019-11459 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

Canonical Ubuntu Linux

First reported 6 years ago

2019-04-22 22:29:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2019-06-14 03:29:00

Affected Software

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

16.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS Edition

18.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10

18.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04

19.04

References

openSUSE-SU-2019:1667

RHSA-2019:3553

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

Patch, Third Party Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20190813 [SECURITY] [DLA 1881-1] evince security update

[debian-lts-announce] 20190813 [SECURITY] [DLA 1882-1] atril security update

FEDORA-2019-6316c0663e

FEDORA-2019-ff2b5b5b47

20200216 [SECURITY] [DSA 4624-1] evince security update

USN-3959-1

Third Party Advisory

DSA-4624

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