CVE-2019-12213: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When FreeImage 3.18.0 reads a special TIFF file, the TIFFReadDirectory function in PluginTIFF.cpp always returns 1, leading to stack exhaustion.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 30 only; version 31 only
• Freeimage Project Freeimage: version 3.18.0 only

Published 2019-05-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.