NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mupdf (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-MUPDF-655665
- published15 Feb 2017
- disclosed15 Feb 2017
Introduced: 15 Feb 2017
CVE-2017-5991 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mupdf package and not the mupdf package as distributed by Ubuntu.
An issue was discovered in Artifex MuPDF before 1912de5f08e90af1d9d0a9791f58ba3afdb9d465. The pdf_run_xobject function in pdf-op-run.c encounters a NULL pointer dereference during a Fitz fz_paint_pixmap_with_mask painting operation. Versions 1.11 and later are unaffected.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-5991
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697500
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5991
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3797
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5991
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42138/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-08
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git;h=1912de5f08e90af1d9d0a9791f58ba3afdb9d465
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96213
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=1912de5f08e90af1d9d0a9791f58ba3afdb9d465