CVE-2016-8674: Use After Free

First published: Mon Oct 17 2016(Updated: )

An use-after-free vulnerability was found in mupdf pdf_to_num. A maliciously created file could cause the application to crash. Upstream bugs: <a href="http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697015">http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697015</a> <a href="http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697019">http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697019</a> Upstream patch: <a href="http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git;h=1e03c06456d997435019fb3526fa2d4be7dbc6ec">http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git;h=1e03c06456d997435019fb3526fa2d4be7dbc6ec</a> References: <a href="http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/149">http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/149</a> <a href="https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/09/22/mupdf-use-after-free-in-pdf_to_num-pdf-object-c/">https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/09/22/mupdf-use-after-free-in-pdf_to_num-pdf-object-c/</a>

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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