CVE-2020-16600

HIGH

Artifex MuPDF < 1.16.1 - Use-After-Free in Bander Component

Title source: llm

Description

A Use After Free vulnerability exists in Artifex Software, Inc. MuPDF library 1.17.0-rc1 and earlier when a valid page was followed by a page with invalid pixmap dimensions, causing bander - a static - to point to previously freed memory instead of a newband_writer.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702253

Patch x_refsource_misc

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=96751b25462f83d6e16a9afaf8980b0c3f979c8b

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0030

EPSS Percentile 53.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-416

Status published

Products (2)

artifex/mupdf 1.17.0 rc1

artifex/mupdf < 1.16.1

Published Dec 09, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026