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CVE-2017-14686

HIGH

7.8

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.0110%

EPSS Percentile14.08th

PublishedSep 22, 2017

Last ModifiedMay 13, 2026

Vulnerability Description

Artifex MuPDF 1.11 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted .xps file, related to a "User Mode Write AV near NULL starting at wow64!Wow64NotifyDebugger+0x000000000000001d" on Windows. This occurs because read_zip_dir_imp in fitz/unzip.c does not check whether size fields in a ZIP entry are negative numbers.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Artifex

Mupdf

= 1.11

References & Advisories

🔗 http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=0f0fbc07d9be31f5e83ec5328d7311fdfd8328b1

🔗 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4006

🔗 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698540

🔗 https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-14686

🔗 http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=0f0fbc07d9be31f5e83ec5328d7311fdfd8328b1

🔗 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4006

🔗 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698540

🔗 https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-14686

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