Security Information / 2019 / Security Information -- DSA-4593-1 freeimage

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4593-1 freeimage -- security update

Date Reported:

27 Dec 2019

Affected Packages:

freeimage

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 929597.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-12211, CVE-2019-12213.

More information:

It was found that freeimage, a graphics library, was affected by the following two security issues:

• CVE-2019-12211

  Heap buffer overflow caused by invalid memcpy in PluginTIFF. This flaw might be leveraged by remote attackers to trigger denial of service or any other unspecified impact via crafted TIFF data.

• CVE-2019-12213

  Stack exhaustion caused by unwanted recursion in PluginTIFF. This flaw might be leveraged by remote attackers to trigger denial of service via crafted TIFF data.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 3.17.0+ds1-5+deb9u1.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 3.18.0+ds2-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your freeimage packages.

For the detailed security status of freeimage please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/freeimage