CVE-2019-12979 (GCVE-0-2019-12979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-06-26 17:09 – Updated: 2024-08-04 23:41
VLAI
Summary
ImageMagick 7.0.8-34 has a "use of uninitialized value" vulnerability in the SyncImageSettings function in MagickCore/image.c. This is related to AcquireImage in magick/image.c.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1522 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108913 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4192-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4712 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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