CVE-2016-8729
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artifex Software Inc. | MuPDF | 1.9 | affected |
| Artifex Software Inc. | MuPDF | 1.10 RC2 | affected |
Weaknesses
- remote code execution
ADP Enrichment
CVE Program Container
Additional References
- 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
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243
References
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