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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-16648: mupdf -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 6, 2018
Added
Jul 28, 2020
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-mupdf
Title
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