PT-2018-5051 · Artifex · Mupdf

Published 2017-03-24 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-8729

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Artifex MuPDF version 1.9

Description A memory corruption issue exists in the JBIG2 parser. It can be triggered by a specially crafted PDF, causing a negative number to be passed to a memset, which results in memory corruption and potential code execution. An attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted PDF to the victim.

Recommendations For Artifex MuPDF version 1.9, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-8729

DLA-874-1

DSA-3817-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11068-1

Affected Products

Mupdf

References · 37

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8729 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11068-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8729 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3817-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3817-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9601 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8729 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8729 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8729 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8729 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/jbig2dec · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8729 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8729 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/39760 · Telegram Post
• https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=1a7ef61410884daff8ff8391ddcecc3102acd989 · Note