Use After Free Affecting okular package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (3rd percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-OKULAR-18565064
  • published6 Aug 2026
  • disclosed21 Jul 2026

Introduced: 21 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-63729  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Echo:latest okular.

NVD Description

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

The SyncTeX parser (synctex_parser.c) shipped with TeX Live and embedded by downstream consumers such as GNOME Evince contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability that allows attackers to crash applications or potentially execute arbitrary code by supplying a malformed .synctex or .synctex.gz file. A malformed SyncTeX file can construct a ref node with a NULL parent pointer, causing the replacement routine to fail to detach the node from its sibling chain, which triggers recursive freeing of live tree nodes and leaves dangling pointers that are later accessed by the parser during document load.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1