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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8729

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 jbig2dec

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.13-4"}]}]

Debian:13 jbig2dec

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.13-4"}]}]

Debian:14 jbig2dec

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.13-4"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org