The chartorune function in Artifex Software MuJS allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a * (asterisk) at the end of the input.
References
Link Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/21/5 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/28/11 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697136 Exploit Issue Tracking
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-01-18T17:00:00

Updated: 2017-01-18T16:57:01

Reserved: 2016-09-09T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2016-7563

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-01-18T17:59:00.670

Modified: 2017-01-20T15:13:04.233


Link: CVE-2016-7563

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