CVE-2016-8729
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.53%jbig2dec - security update
Published: 4/24/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/jbig2decfrom 0, < 0.13-4
- Debian/jbig2decfrom 0, < 0.13-4~deb7u1
- Debian/jbig2decfrom 0, < 0.13-4~deb8u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |