CVE-2019-15143

medium

Description

In DjVuLibre 3.5.27, the bitmap reader component allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service error (resource exhaustion caused by a GBitmap::read_rle_raw infinite loop) by crafting a corrupted image file, related to libdjvu/DjVmDir.cpp and libdjvu/GBitmap.cpp.

References

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https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5032

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4198-1/

https://sourceforge.net/p/djvu/djvulibre-git/ci/b1f4e1b2187d9e5010cd01ceccf20b4a11ce723f/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-36

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RYZTGKWY3NAKMIMTFYGN4ZO5XEQWPYRL/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QUEME45HVGTMDOYODAZYQOGWSZ2CEFWZ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M7F7544WASYMOTFDR2WUEOQLN3ZEXNU4/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JO65AWU7LEWNF6DDCZPRFTR2ZPP5XK6L/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FPMG3VY33XGMIKE6QDYIUVS6A7GNTHTK/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00022.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00036.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00087.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00086.html

https://sourceforge.net/p/djvu/bugs/297/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-6210

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-08-18

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01707