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CVE-2016-9601
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.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| artifex / gpl_ghostscript | - | 9.21 |
| debian / debian_linux | 8.0 | 8.0.x |
| debian / debian_linux | 9.0 | 9.0.x |
| artifex / jbig2dec | - | 0.13.x |
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git;a=commit;h=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817
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