CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-21896
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
A Use After Free vulnerability in svg_dev_text_span_as_paths_defs function in source/fitz/svg-device.c in Artifex Software MuPDF 1.16.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via opening of a crafted PDF file.
Affected configurations
• artifex mupdf 1.16.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://www.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgi?8719e07834d6a72b6b4131539e49ed1e8e2ff79e www.ghostscript.com
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701294 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701294 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00017.html lists.debian.org