CVE-2016-10141

critical

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.

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697448

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95876

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Bh=fa3d30fd18c348bb4b1f3858fb860f4fcd4b2045

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-01-13

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical