Is CVE-2016-8729 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2016-8729 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2016-8729?

CVE-2016-8729 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2016-8729?

CVE-2016-8729 has an EPSS score of 1.68% (74th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2016-8729?

Upgrade jbig2dec on debian 11 to 0.13-4 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2016-8729

HIGHEPSS 74th pctl

7.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the JBIG2 parser of Artifex MuPDF 1.9. A specially crafted PDF can cause a negative number to be passed to a memset resulting in memory corruption and potential code execution. An attacker can specially craft a PDF and send to the victim to trigger this vulnerability.

CWE-119Buffer Overflow

How to fix

Remediation Available

jbig2decDebian

Fixed in:0.13-4CVE-2016-8729

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionRequired

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

1.68%probability of exploitation in 30 days

74thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 74% of all known CVEs.

References

Third-Party Advisory1

talosintelligence.com

Other references3

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-119 (Buffer Overflow) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2023-4966	Critical	9.4	100%	KEV + Ransom	Fix
CVE-2017-11882	High	7.8	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2020-0796	Critical	10.0	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2008-4250	Critical	9.8	99%	KEV	-
CVE-2017-15944	Critical	9.8	98%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2015-0014	High	10.0	97%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.