Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3655-1 mupdf -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 26 Aug 2016
- Affected Packages:
- mupdf
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 832031, Bug 833417.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-6265, CVE-2016-6525. - More information:
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Two vulnerabilities were discovered in MuPDF, a lightweight PDF viewer. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2016-6265
Marco Grassi discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in MuPDF. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application crash (denial-of-service), or potentially to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running MuPDF, if a specially crafted PDF file is processed.
- CVE-2016-6525
Yu Hong and Zheng Jihong discovered a heap overflow vulnerability within the pdf_load_mesh_params function, allowing an attacker to cause an application crash (denial-of-service), or potentially to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running MuPDF, if a specially crafted PDF file is processed.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.5-1+deb8u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mupdf packages.
- CVE-2016-6265