Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-1971761
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 28 Dec 2016
How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7 ghostscript-cups.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-cups package and not the ghostscript-cups package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git;a=commit;h=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9601
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092