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CVE-2016-8388

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-02-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An exploitable arbitrary heap-overwrite vulnerability exists within Iceni Argus. When it attempts to convert a malformed PDF to XML, it will explicitly trust an index within the specific font object and use it to write the font's name to a single object within an array of objects.

Affected products

• Iceni Argus: 6.6.04

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96472
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0213/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96472
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0213/

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