CVE-2019-15144 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-15144?

CVE-2019-15144 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 18 Aug 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

In DjVuLibre 3.5.27, the sorting functionality (aka GArrayTemplate<TYPE>::sort) allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash due to an Uncontrolled Recursion) by crafting a PBM image file that is mishandled in libdjvu/GContainer.h.

Weakness: CWE-674

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-15144?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Djvulibre Project Djvulibre, Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2019-15144?

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-2019-15144 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-15144 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-15144, GHSA-xp8v-w5q3-jgf9, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15144.