{"id":"CVE-2016-8728","details":"An exploitable heap out of bounds write vulnerability exists in the Fitz graphical library part of the MuPDF renderer. A specially crafted PDF file can cause a out of bounds write resulting in heap metadata and sensitive process memory corruption leading to potential code execution. Victim needs to open the specially crafted file in a vulnerable reader in order to trigger this vulnerability.","modified":"2026-07-08T15:09:45.921846Z","published":"2018-04-24T19:29:00.423Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgi?0c86abf954ca4a5f00c26f6600acac93f9fc3538"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697395"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0242"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/artifexsoftware/mupdf","events":[{"introduced":"4e1a495e671cf423663a0c36a35fc4acc7d44754"},{"last_affected":"4e1a495e671cf423663a0c36a35fc4acc7d44754"}],"database_specific":{"source":"CPE_STRING","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:artifex:mupdf:1.10:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.10-rc1"},{"last_affected":"1.10-rc1"}]}}],"versions":["1.10-rc1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8728.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}