CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-12212
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-05-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-674
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• freeimage project freeimage 3.18.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness
References
- https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/discussion/36111/thread/e06734bed5/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/freeimage/discussion/36111/thread/e06734bed5/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory