CVE-2016-9294 (GCVE-0-2016-9294)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-11-12 00:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:42
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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