Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package djvulibre (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1910-DJVULIBRE-612534
published18 Aug 2019
disclosed18 Aug 2019

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Introduced: 18 Aug 2019

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream djvulibre package and not the djvulibre package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.