CVE-2019-15142

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2019-15142 · Published 18/08/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-15142 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting djvulibre (djvulibre project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 79.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
djvulibre djvulibre_project	`= 3.5.27`	No fix yet

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.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00086.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00087.html · Mailing List
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00036.html · Mailing List
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00022.html · Mailing List
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FPMG3VY33XGMIKE6QDYIUVS6A7GNTHTK
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JO65AWU7LEWNF6DDCZPRFTR2ZPP5XK6L
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M7F7544WASYMOTFDR2WUEOQLN3ZEXNU4
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QUEME45HVGTMDOYODAZYQOGWSZ2CEFWZ

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