regexp.c in Artifex Software, Inc.

published 2017-03-24 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1321

cvss: 7.5; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.2%; EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits: 0; none known

regexp.c in Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to regular expression compilation.

Patch / fix

distros 1 links 3

mupdf openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.18.0-1.7

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11068-1

bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697381 patch
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/13/1 advisory
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/9 advisory

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-2016-10132 updated 2025-11-21

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

2.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

References

openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2017/01/13/1
mailing-list, patch, third-party-advisory
openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/9
mailing-list, patch, third-party-advisory
bugs.ghostscript.com /show_bug.cgi?id=697381
issue-tracking, patch
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T3U5APFS3FEBOPXUJIFWBNU55PYR7ZBF/
vendor-advisory
git.ghostscript.com /?p=mujs.git%3Bh=fd003eceda531e13fbdd1aeb6e9c73156496e569

Sources

CVE List CVE-2016-10132
NVD CVE-2016-10132

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Summary