CVE-2016-9601

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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
2026-06-18T03:57:35.476943165Z
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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_RANGE",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:gpl_ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "9.21"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "artifex:gpl_ghostscript"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux"
        }
    ]
}
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
e740c549e59a3a58dca615478dc5dcee3fb915d8
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.13"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:jbig2dec:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

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"