Upstream information

CVE-2016-8729 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.8
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.8
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1039850 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 1039931 [RESOLVED / WORKSFORME]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2017:3064-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • mupdf >= 1.18.0-1.7
  • mupdf-devel-static >= 1.18.0-1.7
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11068

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri May 19 10:00:10 2017
CVE page last modified: Tue Sep 3 18:39:53 2024