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CVE-2016-9601

Published: 4/23/2018 Last updated: 8/6/2024 Reserved: 11/23/2016

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.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.0 5.3 Medium CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Opam packages affected (1)

conf-ghostscript

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
ghostscript unspecified n/a

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