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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-7975: ghostscript security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-7975: ghostscript security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/19/2017
Created
12/19/2019
Added
12/18/2019
Modified
12/18/2019

Description

Artifex jbig2dec 0.13, as used in Ghostscript, allows out-of-bounds writes because of an integer overflow in the jbig2_build_huffman_table function in jbig2_huffman.c during operations on a crafted JBIG2 file, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execution of arbitrary code.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-ghostscript
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-ghostscript-cups

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