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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2016-7505 json

A buffer overflow vulnerability was observed in divby function of Artifex Software, Inc.

published 2016-10-29 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8358

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability was observed in divby function of Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before 8c805b4eb19cf2af689c860b77e6111d2ee439d5. A successful exploitation of this issue can lead to code execution or denial of service condition.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-7505 updated

mujs: Multiple security issues

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.ghostscript.com http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697140 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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