vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3297-1 (CVE-2016-9601): jbig2dec vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 24, 2017
Added
May 25, 2017
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

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)

ubuntu-upgrade-jbig2decubuntu-upgrade-libjbig2dec0
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