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CVE-2016-7563

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-01-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

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.

Affected products

• MuJS: all versions

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/21/5
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/28/11
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697136
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/21/5
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/28/11
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697136

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