Buffer overflow in MuPDF - CVE-2016-8729
Published: April 24, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU37160
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-8729
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
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 software
MuPDF
Fedora
mupdf
Fedora
mupdf
How to mitigate CVE-2016-8729
Install update from vendor's website.
mupdf - update to 1.10a-7.fc25