CVE-2019-14494 Denial of service in n/a
High 7.5
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-14494 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2019-14494 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 1 Aug 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14494 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Canonical Ubuntu Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14494/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14494/index.md)
A divide-by-zero error in Poppler allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted PDF files.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2019-14494?
CVE-2019-14494 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 1 Aug 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An issue was discovered in Poppler through 0.78.0. There is a divide-by-zero error in the function SplashOutputDev::tilingPatternFill at SplashOutputDev.cc.
Weakness: CWE-369
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-14494?
It affects 5 products.
Linux distribution packages (40)
poppler-cpp AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 0.66.0-27.el8 |
poppler-cpp-devel AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 0.66.0-27.el8 |
poppler-devel AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 0.66.0-27.el8 |
poppler-glib-devel AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 0.66.0-27.el8 |
poppler-qt5 AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 0.66.0-27.el8 |
poppler-qt5-devel AlmaLinux:8 | All versions | 0.66.0-27.el8 |
evince Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:3.28.2-10.el7 |
evince-browser-plugin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:3.28.2-10.el7 |
evince-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:3.28.2-10.el7 |
evince-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:3.28.2-10.el7 |
evince-dvi Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:3.28.2-10.el7 |
evince-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:3.28.2-10.el7 |
evince-nautilus Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:3.28.2-10.el7 |
poppler Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-cpp Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-cpp-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-demos Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-glib Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-glib-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-qt Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-qt-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-utils Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-cpp Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-cpp-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-demos Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-glib Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-glib-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-qt Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-qt-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
poppler-utils Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.26.5-43.el7 |
evince Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:3.28.2-10.el7 |
evince-browser-plugin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:3.28.2-10.el7 |
evince-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:3.28.2-10.el7 |
evince-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:3.28.2-10.el7 |
evince-dvi Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:3.28.2-10.el7 |
Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Freedesktop Poppler, Redhat Enterprise Linux.
How do I fix CVE-2019-14494?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2019-14494 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14494 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Sources
Also known as ALSA-2020:4643, AZL-44472, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14494, GHSA-8xhq-wvcf-g987, RHSA-2020:3977, RHSA-2020:4643 and 2 more.