CVE-2016-8729
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Apr 24, 2018
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 17, 2016
Description
An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the JBIG2 parser of Artifex MuPDF 1.9. A specially crafted PDF can cause a negative number to be passed to a memset resulting in memory corruption and potential code execution. An attacker can specially craft a PDF and send to the victim to trigger this vulnerability.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | talos |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
MuPDFArtifex Software Inc. |
|
References
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697395
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jbig2dec.git/commit/?id=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=1a7ef61410884daff8ff8391ddcecc3102acd989
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