CVE-2019-15142

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-08-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In DjVuLibre 3.5.27, DjVmDir.cpp in the DJVU reader component allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash in GStringRep::strdup in libdjvu/GString.cpp caused by a heap-based buffer over-read) by crafting a DJVU file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10
Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
Djvulibre Project Djvulibre: 3.5.27
Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30, 31
openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00086.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00087.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00036.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00022.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FPMG3VY33XGMIKE6QDYIUVS6A7GNTHTK/
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/M7F7544WASYMOTFDR2WUEOQLN3ZEXNU4/
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/RYZTGKWY3NAKMIMTFYGN4ZO5XEQWPYRL/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-36
https://sourceforge.net/p/djvu/bugs/296/
https://sourceforge.net/p/djvu/djvulibre-git/ci/970fb11a296b5bbdc5e8425851253d2c5913c45e/

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