UBUNTU-CVE-2021-37220

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-37220

    Published: 21 Jul 2021Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-37220
    Aliases:
    USN-7825-1

    Summary:

    Details: MuPDF through 1.18.1 has an out-of-bounds write because the cached color converter does not properly consider the maximum key size of a hash table. This can, for example, be seen with crafted "mutool draw" input.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-37220, http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git;h=f5712c9949d026e4b891b25837edd2edc166151f, https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703791, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-37220, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7825-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mupdf

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.7-1

    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
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