CVE-2019-11474 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-11474?

CVE-2019-11474 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 23 Apr 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

coders/xwd.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.31 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (floating-point exception and application crash) by crafting an XWD image file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2019-11008 and CVE-2019-11009.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-682

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-11474?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick, Opensuse Backports Sle, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2019-11474?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-11474 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-11474 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11474, GHSA-39vh-5vp8-mrhx, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11474.