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CVE-2016-7563

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.

Published

2017-01-18T17:59:00.670

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-125

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	artifex	mujs	-	Yes

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/21/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/28/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697136 Exploit, Issue Tracking ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/21/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/28/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697136 Exploit, Issue Tracking (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)