Vulnerability Report

CVE-2019-11459

Title: Gnome Evince

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2019-11459.

CWE Category CWE-754
Published Date Apr 22, 2019
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.44%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2019-11459: 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.

Impacted Vendors

G
gnome 1
R
redhat 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00089.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3553 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/1129 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00013.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00014.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7LU4YZK5S46TZAH4J3NYYUYFMOC47LJG/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YJ6R7NMY44IHIQIY24CV3WV2GLGJPQPZ/ https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/18 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3959-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4624 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00089.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3553 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/1129 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00013.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00014.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7LU4YZK5S46TZAH4J3NYYUYFMOC47LJG/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YJ6R7NMY44IHIQIY24CV3WV2GLGJPQPZ/ https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/18 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3959-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4624
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.5
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2019-11459 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.