CVE-2019-11459: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail() functions in the TIFF document backend in GNOME Evince through 3.32.0 did not handle errors from TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented(), leading to uninitialized memory use when processing certain TIFF image files.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only; version 19.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only; version 30 only
• Gnome Evince: up to and including 3.32.0
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 8.1 only; version 8.2 only; version 8.4 only; version 8.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 8.2 only; version 8.4 only; version 8.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 8.2 only; version 8.4 only; version 8.6 only

Published 2019-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.