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GHSA-XMGR-Q253-67MP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:01 – Updated: 2025-04-20 03:33

Details

An exploitable arbitrary heap-overwrite vulnerability exists within Iceni Argus. When it attempts to convert a malformed PDF to XML, it will explicitly trust an index within the specific font object and use it to write the font's name to a single object within an array of objects.

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2016-8388 (GCVE-0-2016-8388)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-28 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:20

Summary

Severity ?

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

Heap Overwrite

Assigner

talos

References

URL

Tags

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	http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-20…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Iceni	Argus	Affected: 6.6.04 (Sep 7 2012) NK

Date Public ?

2017-02-27 00:00

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Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-XMGR-Q253-67MP

CVE-2016-8388 (GCVE-0-2016-8388)

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