CVE-2016-8729 is a memory corruption vulnerability in the JBIG2 parser of Artifex MuPDF 1.9. A specially crafted PDF can lead to a negative value being passed to a memset function, resulting in memory corruption and potential code execution. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a significant impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability concerns, requiring user interaction for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:artifex:mupdf:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.