CVE-2019-13568 — CImg through 2

CImg through 2.6.7 has a heap-based buffer overflow in _load_bmp in CImg.h because of erroneous memory allocation for a malformed BMP image.

01What is this vulnerability?

CImg through 2.6.7 has a heap-based buffer overflow in _load_bmp in CImg.h because of erroneous memory allocation for a malformed BMP image.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-07-31T14:17:12.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T23:57:39.390Z

09References

• cimg.eu — http://cimg.eu/
• github.com — https://github.com/dtschump/CImg
• github.com — https://github.com/dtschump/CImg/commit/ac8003393569aba51048c9d67e1491559877b1d1