Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Affecting evince package, versions [0,3.34.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.44% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EVINCE-2369977
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Apr 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-11459  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-754  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade evince to version 3.34.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions. The tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail() functions in the TIFF document backend in GNOME Evince through 3.32.0 did not handle errors from TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented(), leading to uninitialized memory use when processing certain TIFF image files.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1