Critical severity · published Jan 13, 2017
CVE-2016-10141
An integer overflow vulnerability was observed in the regemit function in regexp.c in Artifex Software, Inc
9.8
CVSS
3.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An integer overflow vulnerability was observed in the regemit function in regexp.c in Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before fa3d30fd18c348bb4b1f3858fb860f4fcd4b2045. The attack requires a regular expression with nested repetition. A successful exploitation of this issue can lead to code execution or a denial of service (buffer overflow) condition.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.6% · higher than 90% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MU
Mujs · Artifex
before 2017-01-12 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10141
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10141
git.ghostscript.com
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Bh=fa3d30fd18c348bb4b1f3858fb860f4fcd4b2045
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95876
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697448
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