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Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting ghostscript-doc package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-GHOSTSCRIPTDOC-1971254
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Dec 2016
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Introduced: 28 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9601  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 ghostscript-doc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-doc package and not the ghostscript-doc 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.