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CVE-2016-9601
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-04-24T01:29:00.270 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:56:19.247

Summary

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.

Affected products

artifex — gpl_ghostscript

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References

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