PT-2017-15056 · Artifex+1 · Mupdf+1

Ziqiang Gu · Published 2017-12-23 · Updated 2019-03-11 · CVE-2017-17866

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 versions prior to 1.12.0

Description The issue arises from the mishandling of certain length changes during a repair operation that occurs simultaneously with a clean operation in pdf/pdf-write.c. This can be exploited by remote attackers using a crafted PDF document, potentially leading to a denial of service through a buffer overflow and application crash, or possibly other unspecified impacts.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.12.0, update to version 1.12.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2415

CVE-2017-17866

DSA-4334-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mupdf

References · 56

• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4334 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000040 · Security Note
• http://ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgi?520cc26d18c9ee245b56e9e91f9d4fcae02be5f0 · Patch
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15369 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-4334-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000039 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5896 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2018-2415 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6525 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mupdf · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17866 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17866 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6265 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5991 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10246 · Security Note