Resource exhaustion in FreeImage - CVE-2019-12213

Vulnerability identifier: #VU18603

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12213

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: FreeImage

Affected software:
FreeImage

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing TIFF files in TIFFReadDirectory() function in PluginTIFF.cpp. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted TIFF file to the affected application, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Install update from vendor's SVN.

• https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/discussion/36111/thread/e06734bed5/