CVE-2016-10141

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-190

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Bh=fa3d30fd18c348bb4b1f3858fb860f4fcd4b2045
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95876Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697448Issue Tracking
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Bh=fa3d30fd18c348bb4b1f3858fb860f4fcd4b2045
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95876Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697448Issue Tracking

Timeline

Published: Jan 13, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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