High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-8729
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-8729
Complete source record
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