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Debian: CVE-2016-8729: jbig2dec -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-8729: jbig2dec -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/24/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/25/2019
Modified
03/02/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-jbig2dec

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