CVE-2023-51106 — A floating point exception (divide-by-zero) vulnerability was discovered in mupd

A floating point exception (divide-by-zero) vulnerability was discovered in mupdf 1.23.4 in function pnm_binary_read_image() of load-pnm.c when fz_colorspace_n returns zero.

01What is this vulnerability?

A floating point exception (divide-by-zero) vulnerability was discovered in mupdf 1.23.4 in function pnm_binary_read_image() of load-pnm.c when fz_colorspace_n returns zero.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-12-26T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T22:32:09.075Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/dongyuma/sox-defects/blob/main/mupdf-defects.md