Artifex MuPDF 1.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .xps file, related to "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at mupdf+0x000000000016cb4f" on Windows. This occurs because of mishandling of XML tag name comparisons.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Artifex MuPDF 1.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact     via a crafted .xps file, related to Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at     mupdf+0x000000000016cb4f on Windows. This occurs because of mishandling of XML tag name comparisons.
    (CVE-2017-14687)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

CVE-2017-15369 CVE-2017-15587 CVE-2017-9216 CVE-2017-14685 CVE-2017-14686 CVE-2017-14687

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Two security issues were discovered in mupdf, a lightweight PDF viewer.

CVE-2017-14687 MuPDF allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .xps file. This occurs because of mishandling of XML tag name comparisons.

CVE-2017-15587 An integer overflow was discovered in pdf_read_new_xref_section in pdf/pdf-xref.c

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.9-2+deb7u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your mupdf packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in MuPDF, a PDF file viewer, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

  - CVE-2017-14685, CVE-2017-14686, and CVE-2017-14687     WangLin discovered that a crafted .xps file can crash     MuPDF and potentially execute arbitrary code in several     ways, since the application makes unchecked assumptions     on the entry format.

  - CVE-2017-15587     Terry Chia and Jeremy Heng discovered an integer     overflow that can cause arbitrary code execution via a     crafted .pdf file.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
253617	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-14687	Nessus	Misc.	high
105942	Fedora 27 : mupdf (2017-a1ad512b22)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
105132	Fedora 25 : mupdf (2017-9ae6e39bde)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
104976	Fedora 26 : mupdf (2017-267f37c544)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
104438	Debian DLA-1164-1 : mupdf security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
104134	Debian DSA-4006-1 : mupdf - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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