CVE-2017-17858

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 22, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Dec 22, 2017

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ensure_solid_xref function in pdf/pdf-xref.c in Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 allows a remote attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file, because xref subsection object numbers are unrestricted.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

GLSA-201811-15vendor-advisory
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698819
https://github.com/mzet-/Security-Advisories/blob/master/mzet-adv-2017-01.md
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=55c3f68d638ac1263a386e0aaa004bb6e8bde731

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