| Name | CVE-2020-16600 |
| Description | A Use After Free vulnerability exists in Artifex Software, Inc. MuPDF library 1.17.0-rc1 and earlier when a valid page was followed by a page with invalid pixmap dimensions, causing bander - a static - to point to previously freed memory instead of a newband_writer. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 989526 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| mupdf (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.5-1+deb8u6 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.14.0+ds1-4+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster | 1.14.0+ds1-4+deb10u3 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster (lts) | 1.14.0+ds1-4+deb10u2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 1.17.0+ds1-2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1.17.0+ds1-1.3~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.21.1+ds2-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.24.10+ds1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| mupdf | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| mupdf | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| mupdf | source | buster | 1.14.0+ds1-4+deb10u3 | | | |
| mupdf | source | (unstable) | 1.17.0+ds1-1 | | | 989526 |
Notes
[stretch] - mupdf <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702253
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git;h=96751b25462f83d6e16a9afaf8980b0c3f979c8b