NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mujs (opens in a new tab)
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- published19 Feb 2021
- disclosed12 Nov 2016
Introduced: 12 Nov 2016
CVE-2016-9294 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mujs package and not the mujs package as distributed by Debian.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9294
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94293
- http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697172
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git;a=commit;h=5008105780c0b0182ea6eda83ad5598f225be3ee
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5008105780c0b0182ea6eda83ad5598f225be3ee