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CVE-2017-17858
high
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the ensure_solid_xref function in pdf/pdf-xref.c in Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 allows a remote attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file, because xref subsection object numbers are unrestricted.
References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15
https://github.com/mzet-/Security-Advisories/blob/master/mzet-adv-2017-01.md
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-9005
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698819
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=55c3f68d638ac1263a386e0aaa004bb6e8bde731