CVE-2019-14975

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-08-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

Artifex MuPDF before 1.16.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read in fz_chartorune in fitz/string.c because pdf/pdf-op-filter.c does not check for a missing string.

Affected products

Artifex MuPDF: before 1.16.0 — fixed in 1.16.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Artifex MuPDF 1.16.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97096297d409ec6f206298444ba00719607e8ba8
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701292
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97096297d409ec6f206298444ba00719607e8ba8
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701292

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