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CVE-2016-8729

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 1.68% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-04-24 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
exploit code execution

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CVE
CVE-2016-8729
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
1.68%

Original NVD 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.

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