CVE-2016-8729

 

Published at: - 24-04-2018 09:29

Last modified: - 19-04-2022 10:15

Total changes: - 2

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.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

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

 

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Reference

• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243

 

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