CVE-2019-11505: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In GraphicsMagick from version 1.3.8 to 1.4 snapshot-20190403 Q8, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function WritePDBImage of coders/pdb.c, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file. This is related to MagickBitStreamMSBWrite in magick/bit_stream.c.

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 18.04 only
  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
  • Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick: from 1.3.8, up to and including 1.3.31
  • Opensuse Backports Sle: version 15.0 only
  • Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only; version 42.3 only

Published 2019-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.