CVE-2016-7505: artifex mujs

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-7505 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in artifex mujs. EPSS estimates a 3.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 29-10-2016
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability was observed in divby function of Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before 8c805b4eb19cf2af689c860b77e6111d2ee439d5. A successful exploitation of this issue can lead to code execution or denial of service condition.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.