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.
cve-icon 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

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-04-24T19:29:00.487

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:59:56.423

Link: CVE-2016-8729

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