Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 22, 2023· Updated Nov 3, 2025

CVE-2020-21896

Description

A 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.

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Affected products

Artifex Software/MuPDFdescription
Artifex/Mupdfllm-fuzzy
Range: = 1.16.0

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgimitre
bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgimitre

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