PT-2017-7825 · Artifex+1 · Mupdf+1

Agostino Sarubbo · CVE-2016-10246 · Published 2017-03-16 · Updated 2024-09-12

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MuPDF versions prior to 1.10

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the main function in jstest main.c in Mujstest, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.10, update to version 1.10 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to crafted files that could exploit the buffer overflow in the main function.

Fix

DoS

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2415

CVE-2016-10246

DLA-2765-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mupdf

References · 60

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-2765-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10246 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000040 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15369 · Security Note
• 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
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mupdf · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6525 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10246 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10246 · Vendor Advisory
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/09/24/mupdf-mujstest-global-buffer-overflow-in-main-jstest_main-c · Patch
• 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
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-01673 · Security Note