CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-7504

Use After Free

Published: Oct 29, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A use-after-free vulnerability was observed in Rp_toString function of Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before 5c337af4b3df80cf967e4f9f6a21522de84b392a. A successful exploitation of this issue can lead to code execution or denial of service condition.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mujs Artifex * 5000749f5afe3b956fc916e407309de840997f4a (including)
Mupdf Ubuntu artful *
Mupdf Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Mupdf Ubuntu precise *
Mupdf Ubuntu xenial *
Mupdf Ubuntu yakkety *
Mupdf Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References