CVE-2016-8729: Artifex Mupdf

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Artifex Mupdf: version 1.9 only

Published 2018-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.