CVE-2016-9294 (GCVE-0-2016-9294)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-11-12 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:42
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2016-11-11 00:00
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