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CVE-2017-5627

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

An issue was discovered in Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before 4006739a28367c708dea19aeb19b8a1a9326ce08. The jsR_setproperty function in jsrun.c lacks a check for a negative array length. This leads to an integer overflow in the js_pushstring function in jsrun.c when parsing a specially crafted JS file.

Affected products

• MuJS: before 2017-01-24 — fixed in 2017-01-24

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MuJS 2017-01-24. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Bh=4006739a28367c708dea19aeb19b8a1a9326ce08
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95856
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697497
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Bh=4006739a28367c708dea19aeb19b8a1a9326ce08
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95856
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697497

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