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CVE-2019-15531

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-08-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

GNU Libextractor through 1.9 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the function EXTRACTOR_dvi_extract_method in plugins/dvi_extractor.c.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30, 31
• GNU libextractor: through 1.9

References

• https://bugs.gnunet.org/view.php?id=5846
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00038.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00016.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DV5YBIS2UUNUUKQOEKDWUKEEWJIKWFMZ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GRQUHTSNOCKGRKPRXPUJ6FGTVZ2K5POL/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MUJWNWDGGXQLTNQNELKERJ7DLW7E22BK/
• https://bugs.gnunet.org/view.php?id=5846
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00038.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00016.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DV5YBIS2UUNUUKQOEKDWUKEEWJIKWFMZ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GRQUHTSNOCKGRKPRXPUJ6FGTVZ2K5POL/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MUJWNWDGGXQLTNQNELKERJ7DLW7E22BK/

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