CVE-2016-9601

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9601
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9601.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9601
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-04-24T01:29:00.270Z
Modified
2026-03-15T14:56:24.475216Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

ghostscript before version 9.21 is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow that was found in the ghostscript jbig2decodegrayscaleimage 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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/artifexsoftware/jbig2dec

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/artifexsoftware/jbig2dec
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.13"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.10
0.11
0.12
0.13
0.5
0.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9601.json"
unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "9.21"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]