Out-of-Bounds Affecting mupdf package, versions [,1.9]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MUPDF-2367838
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Apr 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Apr 2018

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for mupdf.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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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