CVE-2016-8729

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8729
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8729.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8729
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-04-24T19:29:00.487Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:41:52.768831Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/artifexsoftware/mupdf

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/artifexsoftware/mupdf
Events
Introduced
027860688eafc89ca3d57937a77a43a9bb96f590
Last affected
027860688eafc89ca3d57937a77a43a9bb96f590
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:mupdf:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.9"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.9"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.9
1.9a

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8729.json"