CVE-2016-8729

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    CVE-2016-8729

    Published: 24 Apr 2018Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697395, https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jbig2dec.git/commit/?id=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092, https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=1a7ef61410884daff8ff8391ddcecc3102acd989, https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 027860688eafc89ca3d57937a77a43a9bb96f590
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.9

    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