Medium severity · published May 24, 2017
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
6.5
CVSS
3.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.5% · higher than 89% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
JB
Jbig2dec · Artifex
0.13; 0.13 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9216
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9216
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98680
Exploit
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697934
git.ghostscript.com
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ebffb1d96ba0cacec23016eccb4047dab365853
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00023.html
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