CVE-2016-9601
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
- 2018-04-24T01:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:27Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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
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- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092