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CVE-2016-9601

Published: Apr 23, 2018

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

5.3

MEDIUM

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
unspecified	ghostscript	affected `ghostscript 0.14`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601

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vdb-entry

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http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457

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