CVE-2016-7505

critical

Published 2016-10-29 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

9.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability was observed in divby function of Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before 8c805b4eb19cf2af689c860b77e6111d2ee439d5. A successful exploitation of this issue can lead to code execution or denial of service condition.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0`
sid	Fixed	`0`
forky	Fixed	`0`
bullseye	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
artifex	mujs	`{"endIncluding":"a3a4fe840b80706c706e86160352af5936f292d8"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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