{"id":"CVE-2016-8729","details":"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.","modified":"2026-07-08T12:41:52.768831Z","published":"2018-04-24T19:29:00.487Z","related":["openSUSE-SU-2024:11068-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697395"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jbig2dec.git/commit/?id=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=1a7ef61410884daff8ff8391ddcecc3102acd989"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/artifexsoftware/mupdf","events":[{"introduced":"027860688eafc89ca3d57937a77a43a9bb96f590"},{"last_affected":"027860688eafc89ca3d57937a77a43a9bb96f590"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.9"},{"last_affected":"1.9"}],"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:artifex:mupdf:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["1.9","1.9a"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8729.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"}]}