7.5high
CVE-2016-8729
An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the JBIG2 parser of Artifex MuPDF 1.9.
Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
7.5
v3.0 · CNA
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.5%
percentile 75%
Public exploits
0
none known
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.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
1.51% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.0 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | 3.1 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| CNA | 3.0 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
Affected products
- Artifex Software Inc. MuPDF
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
References
- talosintelligence.com /vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- bugs.ghostscript.com /show_bug.cgi?id=697395
- cgit.ghostscript.com /cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jbig2dec.git/commit/?id=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
- cgit.ghostscript.com /cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=1a7ef61410884daff8ff8391ddcecc3102acd989
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2016-8729
- NVD: CVE-2016-8729
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