CVE-2016-8729

2017-05-1500:00:00

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www.cve.org

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

33.0%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "MuPDF",
    "vendor": "Artifex Software Inc.",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "1.9"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "1.10 RC2"
      }
    ]
  }
]