CVE-2019-11459 Memory corruption in n/a
An attacker can cause uninitialized memory use in GNOME Evince by providing a malicious TIFF file, potentially leading to code execution or application crash.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2019-11459?
CVE-2019-11459 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 22 Apr 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-11459?
It affects 9 products.
Linux distribution packages (4)
evince SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 | All versions | 3.26.0+20180128.1bd86963-4.7.3 |
evince SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1 | All versions | 3.26.0+20180128.1bd86963-4.7.3 |
evince openSUSE:Leap 15.0 | All versions | 3.26.0+20180128.1bd86963-lp151.4.3.1 |
evince openSUSE:Leap 15.1 | All versions | 3.26.0+20180128.1bd86963-lp151.4.3.1 |
Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Gnome Evince, Opensuse Leap, Redhat Enterprise Linux and 3 more.
How do I fix CVE-2019-11459?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2019-11459 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-11459 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Sources
Also known as CLEANSTART-2024-SB32943, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11459, GHSA-3q2g-r99g-8h69, MGASA-2019-0355, OESA-2022-1550, SUSE-SU-2019:1648-1 and 3 more.