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CVE-2016-9601
medium
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.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092