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CVE-2016-8729
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-04-24T19:29:00.487 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:54:53.740

Summary

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.

Affected products

artifex — mupdf

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References

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