Access of Uninitialized Pointer in Evince - CVE-2019-11459

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Access of Uninitialized Pointer in Evince - CVE-2019-11459

Published: June 25, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU29244
CSH Severity: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11459
CWE-ID: CWE-824
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Evince
Software vendor:
Gnome Development Team

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due tothe TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented() function called from tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail() functions in the backend/tiff/tiff-document.c in GNOME Evince returns uninitialized memory instead of false, when failing to read an image. A remote attacker can gain access to sensitive information on the system.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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