CVE-2020-21896

NameCVE-2020-21896
DescriptionA Use After Free vulnerability in svg_dev_text_span_as_paths_defs function in source/fitz/svg-device.c in Artifex Software MuPDF 1.16.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via opening of a crafted PDF file.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
mupdf (PTS)bullseye1.17.0+ds1-2vulnerable
bullseye (security)1.17.0+ds1-1.3~deb11u1vulnerable
bookworm1.21.1+ds2-1fixed
sid, trixie1.24.10+ds1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
mupdfsource(unstable)1.19.0+ds1-1

Notes

[bullseye] - mupdf <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - mupdf <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701294
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git;h=8719e07834d6a72b6b4131539e49ed1e8e2ff79e

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