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    CVE-2016-8729

    An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the JBIG2 parser of Artifex MuPDF 1.9. A specially crafted PDF can cause a negative number to be passed to a memset resulting in memory corruption and potential code execution. An attacker can specially craft a PDF and send to the victim to trigger this vulnerability.

    Published:Apr 24, 2018
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Apr 24, 2018
    EPSS Score:0.00532
    CVSS Score:7.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Artifex
    Product
    Mupdf

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

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