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Ubuntu: USN-3297-1 (CVE-2017-7975): jbig2dec vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3297-1 (CVE-2017-7975): jbig2dec vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/25/2017
Modified
04/25/2018

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-jbig2dec
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libjbig2dec0

References

  • USN-3297-1
  • DLA-942-1
  • DSA-3855
  • GLSA-201708-10
  • CVE-2017-7975

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