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CVE-2016-8729

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CVE-2016-8729

Published: Apr 24, 2018

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

7.5

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

Artifex Software Inc.

MuPDF

affected
1.9
affected
1.10 RC2

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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CVE-2016-8729 | HIGH (7.5) - Security Vulnerability | QwikSec