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CVE-2021-4216 (GCVE-0-2021-4216)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-26 15:25 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:16
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Summary
A Floating point exception (division-by-zero) flaw was found in Mupdf for zero width pages in muraster.c. It is fixed in Mupdf-1.20.0-rc1 upstream.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a mupdf Affected: Fixed in v1.20.0-rc1
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