CVE-2016-9017

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-10-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before a5c747f1d40e8d6659a37a8d25f13fb5acf8e767 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by using the "opname in crafted JavaScript file" approach, related to an "Out-of-Bounds read" issue affecting the jsC_dumpfunction function in the jsdump.c component.

Affected products

MuJS: through 5c337af4b3df80cf967e4f9f6a21522de84b392a

References

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697171
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94241
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697171
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94241

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