CVE-2016-10141 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2017-01-13

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:artifex:mujs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2016-1330	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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00609.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Bh=fa3d30fd18c348bb4b1f3858fb860f4fcd4b2045
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95876
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697448

History

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Subscriptions

Artifex Mujs

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-01-13T09:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:14:42.275Z

Reserved: 2017-01-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-10141

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-01-13T09:59:00.373

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-10141

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-190

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