CVE-2025-55780NULL Pointer Dereference in Mupdf

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 81.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 23

Description

A null pointer dereference occurs in the function break_word_for_overflow_wrap() in MuPDF 1.26.4 when rendering a malformed EPUB document. Specifically, the function calls fz_html_split_flow() to split a FLOW_WORD node, but does not check if node->next is valid before accessing node->next->overflow_wrap, resulting in a crash if the split fails or returns a partial node chain.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDartifex/mupdf1.24.01.26.7
Debianartifex/mupdf< 1.27.0+ds1-2

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
CVEList
CVE-2025-55780: A null pointer dereference occurs in the function break_word_for_overflow_wrap() in MuPDF 12025-09-23
OSV
CVE-2025-55780: A null pointer dereference occurs in the function break_word_for_overflow_wrap() in MuPDF 12025-09-23
GHSA
GHSA-756h-grq9-2jvh: A null pointer dereference occurs in the function break_word_for_overflow_wrap() in MuPDF 12025-09-23

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2025-55780: mupdf - A null pointer dereference occurs in the function break_word_for_overflow_wrap()...2025
CVE-2025-55780 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Mupdf | cvebase