CVE-2016-8385: Iceni Argus

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable uninitialized variable vulnerability which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow exists in Iceni Argus. When it attempts to convert a malformed PDF to XML a stack variable will be left uninitialized which will later be used to fetch a length that is used in a copy operation. In most cases this will allow an aggressor to write outside the bounds of a stack buffer which is used to contain colors. This can lead to code execution under the context of the account running the tool.

Affected products

• Iceni Argus: version 6.6.04 only

Published 2017-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.