Description
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.
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Remediation
No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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EUVD |
EUVD-2016-9568 | 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. |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: talos
Published:
Updated: 2024-09-16T17:24:06.366Z
Reserved: 2016-10-17T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2016-8729
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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-04-24T19:29:00.487
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:59:56.423
Link: CVE-2016-8729
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD