NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting jbig2dec package, versions [,0.13]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.51% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-JBIG2DEC-2369705
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 May 2017

CVE-2017-9216  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for jbig2dec.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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