CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7563
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The chartorune function in Artifex Software MuJS allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a * (asterisk) at the end of the input.
Affected configurations
• artifex mujs
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/21/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/28/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697136 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/21/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/28/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697136 Exploit, Issue Tracking