CVE-2016-8729

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-8729
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-04-24 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2022-12-13 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Artifex Mupdf 1.9 All All All
Application Artifex Mupdf 1.9 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
TALOS-2016-0243 - Cisco Talos MISC www.talosintelligence.com Third Party Advisory
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