CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17858
7.8 HIGH
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-01-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/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-119
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the ensure_solid_xref function in pdf/pdf-xref.c in Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 allows a remote attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file, because xref subsection object numbers are unrestricted.
Affected configurations
• artifex mupdf 1.12.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=55c3f68d638ac1263a386e0aaa004bb6e8bde731 git.ghostscript.com
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698819 Permissions Required
- https://github.com/mzet-/Security-Advisories/blob/master/mzet-adv-2017-01.md Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15 security.gentoo.org
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=55c3f68d638ac1263a386e0aaa004bb6e8bde731 git.ghostscript.com
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698819 Permissions Required
- https://github.com/mzet-/Security-Advisories/blob/master/mzet-adv-2017-01.md Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15 security.gentoo.org