CVE-2017-14687

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+0x000000000016cb4f" on Windows. This occurs because of mishandling of XML tag name comparisons.

Affected products

Artifex MuPDF: 1.11

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=2b16dbd8f73269cb15ca61ece75cf8d2d196ed28
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4006
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698558
https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-14687
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00007.html
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=2b16dbd8f73269cb15ca61ece75cf8d2d196ed28
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4006
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698558
https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-14687
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00007.html

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