CVE-2016-10133

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the js_stackoverflow function in jsrun.c in Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS allows attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging an error when dropping extra arguments to lightweight functions.

Affected products

MuJS: all versions

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=77ab465f1c394bb77f00966cd950650f3f53cb24
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/13/1
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697401
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T3U5APFS3FEBOPXUJIFWBNU55PYR7ZBF/
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=77ab465f1c394bb77f00966cd950650f3f53cb24
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/13/1
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697401
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T3U5APFS3FEBOPXUJIFWBNU55PYR7ZBF/

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