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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: talos
Published: 2018-04-24T19:00:00Z
Updated: 2024-09-16T17:24:06.366Z
Reserved: 2016-10-17T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-8729
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-04-24T19:29:00.487
Modified: 2022-12-13T17:37:41.577
Link: CVE-2016-8729
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