CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-16648
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-129
Description
In Artifex MuPDF 1.13.0, the fz_append_byte function in fitz/buffer.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted pdf file. This is caused by a pdf/pdf-device.c pdf_dev_alpha array-index underflow.
Affected configurations
• artifex mupdf 1.13.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index weakness
References
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699685 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=38f883fe129a5e89306252a4676eaaf4bc968824 cgit.ghostscript.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00019.html lists.debian.org
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699685 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00019.html lists.debian.org