Vulnerability Details CVE-2016-8729
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 scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.005
EPSS Ranking 66.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
CVSS v2 Score 6.8
References
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697395
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jbig2dec.git/commit/?id=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=1a7ef61410884daff8ff8391ddcecc3102acd989
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243