freeimage vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

* Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in FreeImage.

Software Description

* freeimage - Support library for graphics image formats

Details

It was discovered that FreeImage incorrectly handled certain
memory operations. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted
TIFF file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause a heap
buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service attack.
(CVE-2019-12211)

It was discovered that FreeImage incorrectly processed images
under certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a
crafted TIFF file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause a stack exhaustion condition, resulting in a denial of
service attack. (CVE-2019-12213)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
libfreeimage-dev - 3.17.0+ds1-5+deb9u1build0.18.04.1
libfreeimage3 - 3.17.0+ds1-5+deb9u1build0.18.04.1
libfreeimageplus-dev - 3.17.0+ds1-5+deb9u1build0.18.04.1
libfreeimageplus3 - 3.17.0+ds1-5+deb9u1build0.18.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

* CVE-2019-12211
* CVE-2019-12213

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