CVE-2016-8729
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 1.5%
exploitation probability
1.5%top 26% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Artifex Software Inc. · MuPDFReferences
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697395https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jbig2dec.git/commit/?id=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=1a7ef61410884daff8ff8391ddcecc3102acd989https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243