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CVE-2016-10141

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

An integer overflow vulnerability was observed in the regemit function in regexp.c in Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before fa3d30fd18c348bb4b1f3858fb860f4fcd4b2045. The attack requires a regular expression with nested repetition. A successful exploitation of this issue can lead to code execution or a denial of service (buffer overflow) condition.

Affected products

• MuJS: before 2017-01-12 — fixed in 2017-01-12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MuJS 2017-01-12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Bh=fa3d30fd18c348bb4b1f3858fb860f4fcd4b2045
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95876
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697448
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Bh=fa3d30fd18c348bb4b1f3858fb860f4fcd4b2045
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95876
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697448

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