CVE-2016-6265

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-09-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the pdf_load_xref function in pdf/pdf-xref.c in MuPDF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PDF file.

Affected products

Artifex MuPDF: through 1.9
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.2

References

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696941
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=fa1936405b6a84e5c9bb440912c23d532772f958
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00007.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3655
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/21/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92071
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-12
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696941
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=fa1936405b6a84e5c9bb440912c23d532772f958
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00007.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3655
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/21/7

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