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Debian Security Advisory DSA 4152-1 (mupdf - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in MuPDF, a PDF, XPS, and e-book viewer, which may result in denial of service or remote code execution. An attacker can craft a PDF document which, when opened in the victim host, might consume vast amounts of memory, crash the program, or, in some cases, execute code in the context in which the application is running.
Affected Software
Affected Software
mupdf on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.5-1+deb8u4. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.9a+ds1-4+deb9u3. We recommend that you upgrade your mupdf packages. For the detailed security status of mupdf please refer to its security tracker page linked in the references.