CVE-2017-14685

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-09-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Artifex MuPDF 1.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .xps file, related to "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at mupdf+0x000000000016aa61" on Windows. This occurs because xps_load_links_in_glyphs in xps/xps-link.c does not verify that an xps font could be loaded.

Affected products

Artifex MuPDF: 1.11

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=ab1a420613dec93c686acbee2c165274e922f82a
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4006
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698539
https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-14685
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=ab1a420613dec93c686acbee2c165274e922f82a
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4006
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698539
https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-14685

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