CVE-2017-7975

high

Description

Artifex jbig2dec 0.13, as used in Ghostscript, allows out-of-bounds writes because of an integer overflow in the jbig2_build_huffman_table function in jbig2_huffman.c during operations on a crafted JBIG2 file, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execution of arbitrary code.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-10

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697693

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3855

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-19

Updated: 2017-11-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High