CVE-2016-8388

An exploitable arbitrary heap-overwrite vulnerability exists within Iceni Argus

High · published February 28, 2017

CVSS v3.0
8.8
EPSS
2%
Percentile
79.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An exploitable arbitrary heap-overwrite vulnerability exists within Iceni Argus. When it attempts to convert a malformed PDF to XML, it will explicitly trust an index within the specific font object and use it to write the font's name to a single object within an array of objects.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01867 · 79.0th percentile
Published
2017-02-28T15:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 FEB 15:00Z
    An exploitable arbitrary heap-overwrite vulnerability exists within Iceni Argus
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