Out-of-Bounds Affecting jbig2dec package, versions <0.13-4
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- published24 Apr 2018
- disclosed24 Apr 2018
Introduced: 24 Apr 2018
CVE-2016-9601 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9 jbig2dec to version 0.13-4 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jbig2dec package and not the jbig2dec package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9601
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git;a=commit;h=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
- 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://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-9601
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092