PT-2018-5050 · Artifex · Mupdf

Published 2018-04-24 · Updated 2022-12-13 · CVE-2016-8728

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.6

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MuPDF (affected versions not specified)

Description A heap out of bounds write issue exists in the Fitz graphical library part of the MuPDF renderer. This can be triggered by a specially crafted PDF file, causing out of bounds write, which results in heap metadata and sensitive process memory corruption. This could potentially lead to code execution. The victim must open the specially crafted file in a vulnerable reader to trigger this issue.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-8728

Affected Products

Mupdf

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8728 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8728 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgi?0c86abf954ca4a5f00c26f6600acac93f9fc3538 · Note
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0242 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/39759 · Telegram Post
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697395 · Note