CVE-2016-8729

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8729

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.13-4
debian debianbullseyefixed0.13-4
debian debianforkyfixed0.13-4
debian debiansidfixed0.13-4
debian debiantrixiefixed0.13-4

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.