CVE-2016-8729

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Artifex Software Inc.	MuPDF	1.9; 1.10 RC2

References

Timeline

Published: Apr 24, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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