CVE-2019-12211
CVSS v3
7.5
HIGH
EPSS Score
4.2 %
exploit probability, as of 2026-10-18
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
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SSVC status
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Vendor advisories
- CVE-2019-12211 Red Hat Product Security
freeimage: heap-based buffer overflow in PluginTIFF.cpp
Description
When FreeImage 3.18.0 reads a tiff file, it will be handed to the Load function of the PluginTIFF.cpp file, but a memcpy occurs in which the destination address and the size of the copied data are not considered, resulting in a heap overflow.
Technical details
- Published
- 2019-05-20
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