Use-after-free in autotrace - CVE-2019-19005

Vulnerability identifier: #VU95414

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 7.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19005

CWE-ID: CWE-416

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing a malformed bitmap image. A remote attacker can trick the victim to pass a specially crafted image to the application, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

autotrace
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems
Fedora
autotrace (Red Hat package)
autotrace

Install update from vendor's website.

autotrace - update to 0.31.9
autotrace (Red Hat package) - update to 0.31.1-53.el8
autotrace - update to 0.31.1-60.fc34
autotrace - update to 0.31.1-62

• https://github.com/autotrace/autotrace/pull/40
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NC6MUH2RLVEA634LHBNZ2KO7MQKI2RDZ/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1945031

• Multiple vulnerabilities in autotrace
• Amazon Linux AMI update for autotrace
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 update for autotrace
• Fedora 34 update for autotrace