CVE-2016-9601

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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24

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

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-04-24

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium