CVE-2016-9601
5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
ghostscript before version 9.21 is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow that was found in the ghostscript jbig2_decode_gray_scale_image function which is used to decode halftone segments in a JBIG2 image. A document (PostScript or PDF) with an embedded, specially crafted, jbig2 image could trigger a segmentation fault in ghostscript.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| unspecified | ghostscript | ghostscript 0.14 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-190: CWE-190->CWE-122
ADP Enrichment
CVE Program Container
Additional References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457
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