SB2019042217 - Denial of service in Artifex MuJS

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SB2019042217 - Denial of service in Artifex MuJS

Published: April 22, 2019 Updated: November 29, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2019042217
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11413)

CWE-ID: CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a regular expression denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to unlimited recursion within the match() function in regexp.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted string to the application and consume all available CPU resources on the system.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References