CVE-2016-8729

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

Artifex MuPDF: 1.9

References

https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697395
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jbig2dec.git/commit/?id=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=1a7ef61410884daff8ff8391ddcecc3102acd989
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243

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