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    CVE-2017-9216

    libjbig2dec.a in Artifex jbig2dec 0.13, as used in MuPDF and Ghostscript, has a NULL pointer dereference in the jbig2_huffman_get function in jbig2_huffman.c. For example, the jbig2dec utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid file.

    Published:May 23, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:May 24, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.01428
    CVSS Score:6.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Artifex
    Product
    Jbig2dec
    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux

    Exploits

    https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697934https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697934

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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