Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting libdjvulibre-devel package, versions <3.5.27-3.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBDJVULIBREDEVEL-2732180
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed24 Sept 2019

Introduced: 24 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-15143  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libdjvulibre-devel to version 3.5.27-3.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libdjvulibre-devel package and not the libdjvulibre-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

In DjVuLibre 3.5.27, the bitmap reader component allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service error (resource exhaustion caused by a GBitmap::read_rle_raw infinite loop) by crafting a corrupted image file, related to libdjvu/DjVmDir.cpp and libdjvu/GBitmap.cpp.

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