Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
CVE-2019-11459
Summary
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.
- LOW
- LOCAL
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- REQUIRED
- NONE
- HIGH
- NONE
CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
The software does not check or incorrectly checks for unusual or exceptional conditions that are not expected to occur frequently during day to day operation of the software.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published