CVE-2016-6525: Artifex Mupdf

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the pdf_load_mesh_params function in pdf/pdf-shade.c in MuPDF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a large decode array.

Affected products

• Artifex Mupdf: up to and including 1.9
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only

Published 2016-09-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.