CVE-2016-9601
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- Apr 23, 2018
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 23, 2016
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 5.3 Medium | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L | redhat |
Weaknesses
- CWE-190 >CWE-122
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ghostscriptunspecified |
|
References
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