Infinite loop in DjVuLibre - CVE-2019-15144
Published: September 30, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU21452
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15144
CWE-ID: CWE-835
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: DjVu
Affected software:
DjVuLibre
DjVuLibre
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop in the sorting functionality (aka GArrayTemplate::sort) within the libdjvu/GContainer.h in DjVuLibre. A remote attacker can consume excessive system resources with a specially crafted BMP file.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-15144
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.