An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was observed in Sp_replace_regexp function of Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before 5000749f5afe3b956fc916e407309de840997f4a. A successful exploitation of this issue can lead to code execution or denial of service condition.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was observed in Sp_replace_regexp function of Artifex Software, Inc.
    MuJS before 5000749f5afe3b956fc916e407309de840997f4a. A successful exploitation of this issue can lead to     code execution or denial of service condition. (CVE-2016-7506)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Security fix for CVE-2016-7504, CVE-2016-7505, CVE-2016-7506, CVE-2016-9017, CVE-2016-9108, CVE-2016-9109, CVE-2016-9294

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
253719	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-7506	Nessus	Misc.	high
95458	Fedora 23 : mujs / zathura-pdf-mupdf (2016-2edfd75312)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
95302	Fedora 25 : mujs / zathura-pdf-mupdf (2016-4cf3e3f488)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
95301	Fedora 24 : mujs / zathura-pdf-mupdf (2016-49a72fb9bd)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

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CVE-2016-7506

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Tenable Plugins

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