Resource Exhaustion Affecting mupdf package, versions <1.15.0+ds1-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.6% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-MUPDF-382538
  • published6 Dec 2018
  • disclosed6 Dec 2018

Introduced: 6 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-19881  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable mupdf to version 1.15.0+ds1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mupdf package and not the mupdf package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

In Artifex MuPDF 1.14.0, svg/svg-run.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (recursive calls followed by a fitz/xml.c fz_xml_att crash from excessive stack consumption) via a crafted svg file, as demonstrated by mupdf-gl.