CVE-2019-11038: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When using the gdImageCreateFromXbm() function in the GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) 2.2.5, as used in the PHP GD extension in PHP versions 7.1.x below 7.1.30, 7.2.x below 7.2.19 and 7.3.x below 7.3.6, it is possible to supply data that will cause the function to use the value of uninitialized variable. This may lead to disclosing contents of the stack that has been left there by previous code.

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.10 only
  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
  • Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only; version 30 only; version 32 only
  • Libgd Libgd: version 2.2.5 only
  • Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only
  • PHP PHP: from 7.1.0, before 7.1.30 (fixed in 7.1.30); from 7.2.0, before 7.2.19 (fixed in 7.2.19); from 7.3.0, before 7.3.6 (fixed in 7.3.6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
  • Red Hat Software Collections: version 1.0 only
  • Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: version 11 only
  • Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 12 only
  • Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 12 only
  • Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: version 12 only
  • Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: version 12 only

Published 2019-06-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.