Excessive Iteration The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ghostscript-mini-devel (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published14 Apr 2022
- disclosed25 Sept 2019
Introduced: 25 Sep 2019
CVE-2019-12973 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.0.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-mini-devel package and not the ghostscript-mini-devel package as distributed by SLES.
In OpenJPEG 2.3.1, there is excessive iteration in the opj_t1_encode_cblks function of openjp2/t1.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file. This issue is similar to CVE-2018-6616.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12973.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1140359
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108900
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/8ee335227bbcaf1614124046aa25e53d67b11ec3
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/pull/1185/commits/cbe7384016083eac16078b359acd7a842253d503
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00008.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html