CVE-2019-12212

Publication date 20 May 2019

Last updated 16 January 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
freeimage	24.10 oracular	Fixed 3.18.0+ds2-10build4
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 3.18.0+ds2-10build4
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2019-09-06]
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2019-09-06]
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2019-09-06]
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 3.18.0+ds2-6ubuntu5.1
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 3.18.0+ds2-1ubuntu3.1
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 3.17.0+ds1-5+deb9u1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 3.17.0+ds1-2ubuntu0.1+esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 3.15.4-3ubuntu0.1+esm3

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Notes

ebarretto

No fix available as of 2019-09-06.

juliaphoebe

At some point between 2019-09-6 and now (Jan 2025), this CVE was patched, but the tracker was not updated correspondingly.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H