CVE-2019-15143: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In DjVuLibre 3.5.27, the bitmap reader component allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service error (resource exhaustion caused by a GBitmap::read_rle_raw infinite loop) by crafting a corrupted image file, related to libdjvu/DjVmDir.cpp and libdjvu/GBitmap.cpp.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.04 only; version 19.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Djvulibre Project Djvulibre: version 3.5.27 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only; version 30 only; version 31 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only

Published 2019-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.