CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9294

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 12, 2016 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before 5008105780c0b0182ea6eda83ad5598f225be3ee allows context-dependent attackers to conduct denial of service (application crash) attacks by using the malformed labeled break/continue in JavaScript approach, related to a NULL pointer dereference issue affecting the jscompile.c component.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mujs Artifex * 2016-10-26 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References