CVE-2016-7506

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: yes
Published: 2016-10-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was observed in Sp_replace_regexp function of Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before 5000749f5afe3b956fc916e407309de840997f4a. A successful exploitation of this issue can lead to code execution or denial of service condition.

Affected products

MuJS: through 8c805b4eb19cf2af689c860b77e6111d2ee439d5

References

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697141
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94241
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697141
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94241

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