PT-2016-7727 · Artifex · Mujs

Puzzor + 1 · Published 2016-11-12 · Updated 2023-10-22 · CVE-2016-9294

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS versions before 5008105780c0b0182ea6eda83ad5598f225be3ee

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to conduct denial of service attacks by using the malformed labeled break/continue in JavaScript approach, related to a NULL pointer dereference issue affecting the jscompile.c component.

Recommendations For versions before 5008105780c0b0182ea6eda83ad5598f225be3ee, update to version 5008105780c0b0182ea6eda83ad5598f225be3ee or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of malformed labeled break/continue statements in JavaScript until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-9294

ROSA-SA-2023-2261

Affected Products

Mujs

References · 5

• 🔥 http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697172 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9294 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9294 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94293 · Note
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5008105780c0b0182ea6eda83ad5598f225be3ee · Note