Advisories » MGASA-2019-0355

Updated evince packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 06 Dec 2019
Modification date: 06 Dec 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-11459

Description

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability:

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. (CVE-2019-11459)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25264
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3959-1/
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3553
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11459

SRPMS

7/core

• evince-3.32.1-1.mga7