CVE-2019-13112: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A PngChunk::parseChunkContent uncontrolled memory allocation in Exiv2 through 0.27.1 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash due to an std::bad_alloc exception) via a crafted PNG image file.

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 10.0 only
• EXIV2 EXIV2: up to and including 0.27.1
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 30 only

Published 2019-06-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.