Out-of-Bounds Affecting jbigkit package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.95% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-JBIGKIT-15323606
  • published20 Feb 2026
  • disclosed26 Jun 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9937  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds due to a memory malloc failure in tif_jbig.c. A crafted TIFF document can lead to an abort resulting in a remote denial of service attack.

Note:

This issue was fixed in commit bc3293299bc4 on the git repository https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/git/jbigkit but not yet tagged as a numbered release.

CVSS Base Scores

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