CVE-2019-15145 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-15145?

CVE-2019-15145 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

DjVuLibre 3.5.27 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service attack (application crash via an out-of-bounds read) by crafting a corrupted JB2 image file that is mishandled in JB2Dict::JB2Codec::get_direct_context in libdjvu/JB2Image.h because of a missing zero-bytes check in libdjvu/GBitmap.h.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-15145?

It affects 5 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2019-15145?

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-2019-15145 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-15145 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-2019-15145, GHSA-fhqx-x8f6-2w5w, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15145.