CVE-2016-8729

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the JBIG2 parser of Artifex MuPDF 1.9

High · published April 24, 2018

CVSS v3.0
7.5
EPSS
2%
Percentile
74.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01513 · 74.1th percentile
Published
2018-04-24T19:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 APR 19:00Z
    An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the JBIG2 parser of Artifex MuPDF 1.9
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