Bug 1539514 (CVE-2018-5759) - CVE-2018-5759 mujs: Improper management of AST depth in jsparse.c can allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted file
Summary: CVE-2018-5759 mujs: Improper management of AST depth in jsparse.c can allow a...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2018-5759
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1539515
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-01-29 05:24 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:38:30 UTC

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Description Sam Fowler 2018-01-29 05:24:57 UTC 
jsparse.c in Artifex MuJS through 1.0.2 does not properly maintain the AST depth for binary expressions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive recursion) via a crafted file.

External References:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5759

Upstream Patch:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git;a=commit;h=4d45a96e57fbabf00a7378b337d0ddcace6f38c1
Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-01-29 05:25:24 UTC 
Created mujs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1539515]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:38:30 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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