Uncontrolled Recursion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package freeimage  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-FREEIMAGE-466312
  • published20 May 2019
  • disclosed20 May 2019

Introduced: 20 May 2019

CVE-2019-12212  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freeimage package and not the freeimage package as distributed by Ubuntu.

When FreeImage 3.18.0 reads a special JXR file, the StreamCalcIFDSize function of JXRMeta.c repeatedly calls itself due to improper processing of the file, eventually causing stack exhaustion. An attacker can achieve a remote denial of service attack by sending a specially constructed file.