High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-9294
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 09:00 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-9294
Complete source record
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