CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8728
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-04-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
An exploitable heap out of bounds write vulnerability exists in the Fitz graphical library part of the MuPDF renderer. A specially crafted PDF file can cause a out of bounds write resulting in heap metadata and sensitive process memory corruption leading to potential code execution. Victim needs to open the specially crafted file in a vulnerable reader in order to trigger this vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• artifex mupdf 1.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0242 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgi?0c86abf954ca4a5f00c26f6600acac93f9fc3538 www.ghostscript.com
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697395 bugs.ghostscript.com
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0242 Third Party Advisory