NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package jbig2dec (opens in a new tab)
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- published24 May 2017
- disclosed24 May 2017
Introduced: 24 May 2017
CVE-2017-9216 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jbig2dec package and not the jbig2dec package as distributed by Ubuntu.
libjbig2dec.a in Artifex jbig2dec 0.13, as used in MuPDF and Ghostscript, has a NULL pointer dereference in the jbig2_huffman_get function in jbig2_huffman.c. For example, the jbig2dec utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid file.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-9216
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697934
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9216
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98680
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ebffb1d96ba0cacec23016eccb4047dab365853
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00023.html