CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9601
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-04-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119, CWE-190
Description
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 configurations
• artifex gpl ghostscript (< 9.21)
• artifex jbig2dec (<= 0.13)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092 git.ghostscript.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092 git.ghostscript.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817 Third Party Advisory