CVE-2019-6131 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service via infinite recursion in the SVG parser of the MuPDF library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2019-6131?
CVE-2019-6131 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Artifex Mupdf, published on 11 Jan 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
svg-run.c in Artifex MuPDF 1.14.0 has infinite recursion with stack consumption in svg_run_use_symbol, svg_run_element, and svg_run_use, as demonstrated by mutool.
Weakness: CWE-674
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-6131?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Artifex Mupdf.
How do I fix CVE-2019-6131?
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-2019-6131 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-6131 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Artifex Mupdf
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-6131, GHSA-p4v2-j6v4-fjv7, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6131.