CVE-2016-8385

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-02-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An exploitable uninitialized variable vulnerability which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow exists in Iceni Argus. When it attempts to convert a malformed PDF to XML a stack variable will be left uninitialized which will later be used to fetch a length that is used in a copy operation. In most cases this will allow an aggressor to write outside the bounds of a stack buffer which is used to contain colors. This can lead to code execution under the context of the account running the tool.

Affected products

Iceni Argus: 6.6.04

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96472
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0210/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96472
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0210/

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