| Name | CVE-2016-8729 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-874-1, DSA-3817-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 863886 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| jbig2dec (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 0.13-4~deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 0.13-4.1+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster | 0.16-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 0.19-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.19-3 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 0.20-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698438
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git;h=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092