CVE Feed

    Dashboard / CVE / CVE-2016-7563

    CVE-2016-7563

    The chartorune function in Artifex Software MuJS allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a * (asterisk) at the end of the input.

    Published:Jan 18, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Jan 18, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.00316
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Artifex
    Product
    Mujs

    Exploits

    https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697136https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697136

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-540 Overread Buffers

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2021-33796 (CVSS 10) — In MuJS before version 1.1.2, a use-after-free flaw in the regexp source property access may cause denial of s…
    CVE-2021-33797 (CVSS 9.8) — Buffer-overflow in jsdtoa.c in Artifex MuJS in versions 1.0.1 to 1.1.1. An integer overflow happens when js_st…
    CVE-2022-44789 (CVSS 8.8) — A logical issue in O_getOwnPropertyDescriptor() in Artifex MuJS 1.0.0 through 1.3.x before 1.3.2 allows an att…
    CVE-2022-30974 (CVSS 5.5) — compile in regexp.c in Artifex MuJS through 1.2.0 results in stack consumption because of unlimited recursion,…
    CVE-2022-30975 (CVSS 5.5) — In Artifex MuJS through 1.2.0, jsP_dumpsyntax in jsdump.c has a NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by m…
    CVE-2021-45005 (CVSS 9.8) — Artifex MuJS v1.1.3 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow which is caused by conflicting JumpList o…
    CVE-2020-22886 (CVSS 7.5) — Buffer overflow vulnerability in function jsG_markobject in jsgc.c in mujs before 1.0.8, allows remote attacke…
    CVE-2020-22885 (CVSS 7.5) — Buffer overflow vulnerability in mujs before 1.0.8 due to recursion in the GC scanning phase, allows remote at…
    CVE-2020-24343 (CVSS 7.8) — Artifex MuJS through 1.0.7 has a use-after-free in jsrun.c because of unconditional marking in jsgc.c.…
    CVE-2019-12798 (CVSS 9.8) — An issue was discovered in Artifex MuJS 1.0.5. regcompx in regexp.c does not restrict regular expression progr…

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High