CVE-2016-9109
Artifex Software MuJS allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to incomplete escape sequences. NOTE: this vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for
02 Description
Artifex Software MuJS allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to incomplete escape sequences. NOTE: this vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.19% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 82.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-01-18 17:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 02:42Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-10-28
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 14d4dea8879ed4d2151d85f99de8da7840237846a8c4869c415aec6b33dada9a
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161030 Re: Re: CVE request - mujs Heap-Buffer-Overflow write and OOB Readhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/4
- www.securityfocus.com94150http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94150
- bugs.ghostscript.comhttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697136#c4
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161107 Re: CVE request - mujs Heap-Buffer-Overflow write and OOB Readhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/07/5
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161030 Re: CVE request - mujs Heap-Buffer-Overflow write and OOB Readhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/13
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- mupdf No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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