CVE-2017-15369

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: none known
Published: 2017-10-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

The build_filter_chain function in pdf/pdf-stream.c in Artifex MuPDF before 2017-09-25 mishandles a certain case where a variable may reside in a register, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Fitz fz_drop_imp use-after-free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document.

Affected products

Artifex MuPDF: through 1.11

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=c2663e51238ec8256da7fc61ad580db891d9fe9a
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698592
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=c2663e51238ec8256da7fc61ad580db891d9fe9a
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698592

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