A flaw was found in mupdf 1.18.0. Double free of object during linearization may lead to memory corruption and other potential consequences.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7825-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that MuPDF incorrectly managed memory, resulting in a memory leak. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2018-1000036)

    It was discovered that MuPDF could enter an infinite loop when parsing certain PDF files. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2018-10289)

    It was discovered that MuPDF incorrectly managed memory, possibly leading to a segmentation fault. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04     LTS. (CVE-2018-16647, CVE-2018-16648)

    It was discovered that MuPDF contained a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2020-21896)

    It was discovered that MuPDF incorrectly managed memory, resulting in a memory leak. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-26683)

    Maxim Mishechkin, Vitalii Akolzin, Shamil Kurmangaleev, Denis Straghkov, Fedor Nis'kov and Ivan Gulakov     discovered that MuPDF incorrectly managed memory under certain circumstances, leading to a double-free. An     attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,     Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3407)

    Xuwei Liu discovered that MuPDF may perform an out-of-bounds write under certain circumstances. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04     LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-37220)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A flaw was found in mupdf 1.18.0. Double free of object during linearization may lead to memory corruption
    and other potential consequences. (CVE-2021-3407)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202105-30 (MuPDF: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MuPDF. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF       document using MuPDF, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition       or have other unspecified impact.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

The remote Fedora 32 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-d8e6f014e5 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in mupdf 1.18.0. Double free of object during linearization may lead to memory corruption     and other potential consequences. (CVE-2021-3407)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 33 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-572bb0f886 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in mupdf 1.18.0. Double free of object during linearization may lead to memory corruption     and other potential consequences. (CVE-2021-3407)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
270675	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : MuPDF vulnerabilities (USN-7825-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
405657	Alpine: multiple mupdf packages, py3-mupdf: security update to 1.18.0-r1	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
405657	Alpine: multiple mupdf packages, py3-mupdf: security update to 1.18.0-r1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
400229	Alpine: multiple mupdf packages: security update to 1.18.0-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
400229	Alpine: multiple mupdf packages: security update to 1.18.0-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
400104	Alpine: multiple mupdf packages: security update to 1.18.0-r2 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
400104	Alpine: multiple mupdf packages: security update to 1.18.0-r2 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
157038	GLSA-202105-30 : MuPDF: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	medium
147181	Fedora 32 : mupdf / python-PyMuPDF / zathura-pdf-mupdf (2021-d8e6f014e5)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
147175	Fedora 33 : mupdf / python-PyMuPDF / zathura-pdf-mupdf (2021-572bb0f886)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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