CVE-2016-8728

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    CVE-2016-8728

    Published: 24 Apr 2018Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An exploitable heap out of bounds write vulnerability exists in the Fitz graphical library part of the MuPDF renderer. A specially crafted PDF file can cause a out of bounds write resulting in heap metadata and sensitive process memory corruption leading to potential code execution. Victim needs to open the specially crafted file in a vulnerable reader in order to trigger this vulnerability.

    References: http://www.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgi?0c86abf954ca4a5f00c26f6600acac93f9fc3538, https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697395, https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0242

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 4e1a495e671cf423663a0c36a35fc4acc7d44754
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.10-rc1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High