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SUSE: CVE-2016-9601: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-9601: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/24/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/02/2017
Modified
06/20/2021

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript
  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript-devel
  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript-fonts-other
  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript-fonts-rus
  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript-fonts-std
  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript-ijs-devel
  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript-library
  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript-omni
  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript-x11
  • suse-upgrade-libgimpprint
  • suse-upgrade-libgimpprint-devel

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:1138-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:1404-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:1140-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:1369-1
  • DLA-874-1
  • DSA-3817
  • CVE-2016-9601
  • USN-3297-1
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