CVE-2019-15141

Publication date 18 August 2019

Last updated 18 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

WriteTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-43 Q16 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash resulting from a heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted TIFF image file, related to TIFFRewriteDirectory, TIFFWriteDirectory, TIFFWriteDirectorySec, and TIFFWriteDirectoryTagColormap in tif_dirwrite.c of LibTIFF. NOTE: this occurs because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-11597.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	25.10 questing	Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu2
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu2
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu2
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu2
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu2
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu2
	19.10 eoan	Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu2
	19.04 disco	Fixed 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-7ubuntu2.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.7
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.14
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.13+esm10

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Notes

mdeslaur

included as part of CVE-2019-11597 fix

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: 3c53413

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H