CVE-2019-12979: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ImageMagick 7.0.8-34 has a "use of uninitialized value" vulnerability in the SyncImageSettings function in MagickCore/image.c. This is related to AcquireImage in magick/image.c.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.04 only; version 19.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• ImageMagick ImageMagick: version 7.0.8-34 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only

Published 2019-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.