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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-589-1 mupdf -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

08 Aug 2016

Affected Packages:

mupdf

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 833417.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-6525.

More information:

A flaw was discovered in the pdf_load_mesh_params() function allowing out-of-bounds write access to memory locations. With carefully crafted input, that could trigger a heap overflow, resulting in application crash or possibly having other unspecified impact.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 0.9-2+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your mupdf packages.

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