Medium severity · published Apr 24, 2018
CVE-2016-9601
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…
5.5
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 77% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
GG
Gpl Ghostscript · Artifex
before 9.21 · source: NVD
JB
Jbig2dec · Artifex
through 0.13 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9601
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9601
git.ghostscript.com
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817
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