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CVE-2017-5628

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% 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 8f62ea10a0af68e56d5c00720523ebcba13c2e6a. The MakeDay function in jsdate.c does not validate the month, leading to an integer overflow 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=8f62ea10a0af68e56d5c00720523ebcba13c2e6a
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95855
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697496
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Bh=8f62ea10a0af68e56d5c00720523ebcba13c2e6a
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95855
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697496

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