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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-7506

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was observed in Sp_replace_regexp function of Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before 5000749f5afe3b956fc916e407309de840997f4a. A successful exploitation of this issue can lead to code execution or denial of service condition.

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CVE-2016-7506

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 Oct 2016, 01:59 UTC

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was observed in Sp_replace_regexp function of Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before 5000749f5afe3b956fc916e407309de840997f4a. A successful exploitation of this issue can lead to code execution or denial of service condition.

osv:CVE-2016-7506
Complete source record
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