PT-2017-13624 · Artifex · Artifex Mupdf

Published 2017-09-22 · Updated 2018-02-04 · CVE-2017-14687

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Artifex MuPDF version 1.11

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .xps file. This occurs because of mishandling of XML tag name comparisons, related to "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at mupdf+0x000000000016cb4f" on Windows.

Recommendations For Artifex MuPDF version 1.11, consider avoiding the use of crafted .xps files until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of .xps files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-14687

DLA-1164-1

DSA-4006-1

Affected Products

Artifex Mupdf

References · 23

• 🔥 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698558 · Exploit
• 🔥❌ https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-14687 · Exploit, Deleted
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14685 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14687 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-4006-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14687 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14687 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4006 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15587 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mupdf · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14687 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14687 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14687 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14687 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4006-1 · Vendor Advisory