Out-of-Bounds Affecting jbig2dec package, versions <0.13-4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-JBIG2DEC-308506
  • published24 Apr 2018
  • disclosed24 Apr 2018

Introduced: 24 Apr 2018

CVE-2016-8729  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 jbig2dec to version 0.13-4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jbig2dec package and not the jbig2dec package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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