Out-of-Bounds Affecting mupdf package, versions [,1.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.24% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MUPDF-2367849
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-6525  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mupdf to version 1.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Heap-based buffer overflow in the pdf_load_mesh_params function in pdf/pdf-shade.c in MuPDF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a large decode array.

CVSS Scores

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