CVE-2019-12212

Publication date 20 May 2019

Last updated 16 January 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

When FreeImage 3.18.0 reads a special JXR file, the StreamCalcIFDSize function of JXRMeta.c repeatedly calls itself due to improper processing of the file, eventually causing stack exhaustion. An attacker can achieve a remote denial of service attack by sending a specially constructed file.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
freeimage 24.10 oracular
Fixed 3.18.0+ds2-10build4
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 3.18.0+ds2-10build4
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was deferred [2019-09-06]
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was deferred [2019-09-06]
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was deferred [2019-09-06]
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.18.0+ds2-6ubuntu5.1
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
21.04 hirsute Ignored end of life
20.10 groovy Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 3.18.0+ds2-1ubuntu3.1
19.10 eoan Ignored end of life
19.04 disco Ignored end of life
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was deferred [2019-09-06]

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Notes

ebarretto

No fix available as of 2019-09-06.

juliaphoebe

At some point between 2019-09-6 and now (Jan 2025), this CVE was patched, but the tracker was not updated correspondingly.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H