CVE-2016-8729 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2016-8729 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.53% · 67.1th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.53%

67.1th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	jbig2dec	0, 0.12-2, 0.12+20150918-1
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	jbig2dec	0, 0.11+20120125-1ubuntu1

Timeline

Apr 24, 2018 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8729 third-party-advisory
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243 third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8729 third-party-advisory

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