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CVE-2016-8729

Date: May 14, 2017

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (5)

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-8729
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8729
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8729
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-8729

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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