Out-of-Bounds Affecting jbig2dec package, versions [,0.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-JBIG2DEC-2369700
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Apr 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Apr 2018

CVE-2016-9601  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade jbig2dec to version 0.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds 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.

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