CVE-2016-9601

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    CVE-2016-9601

    Published: 24 Apr 2018Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24, https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817, https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.13

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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